Expanding the phenotype of 22q11 deletion syndrome: The MURCS association

Clinical Dysmorphology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-17

  Uliana, Vera ^a   Giordano, Nicola ^a   Caselli, Rossella ^a   Papa, Filomena Tiziana ^a   Ariani, Francesca ^a   Marcocci, Claudio ^b   Gianetti, Elena ^b   Martini, Giuseppe ^a   Papakostas, Panagiotis ^a   Rollo, Fabio ^a   Meloni, Ilaria ^a   Mari, Francesca ^a   Priolo, Manuela ^c   Renieri, Alessandra ^a   Nuti, Ranuccio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c Hospital of Reggio Calabria   (Italy)

Author keywords

22q11 deletion syndrome; MURCS association

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; APLASIA; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; BONE DENSITOMETRY; CASE REPORT; CERVICOTHORACIC SOMITE DYSPLASIA; CHROMOSOME DELETION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPLASIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MULLERIAN DUCTS APLASIA; OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT STATURE; SOLITARY KIDNEY; SPINE FUSION; TERATOMA; UTERUS BICORNIS;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; FEMALE; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHENOTYPE; SYNDROME;

EID: 40349114400     PISSN: 09628827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCD.0b013e3282ef97ee     Document Type: Article

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