Submicroscopic subtelomeric aberrations in Chinese patients with unexplained developmental delay/mental retardation

BMC Medical Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Wu, Ye ^a   Ji, Taoyun ^a   Wang, Jingmin ^a   Xiao, Jing ^b   Wang, Huifang ^a,c   Li, Jie ^a,c   Gao, Zhijie ^a,d   Yang, Yanling ^a   Cai, Bin ^e   Wang, Liwen ^d   Zhou, Zhongshu ^f   Tian, Lili ^g   Wang, Xiaozhu ^h   Zhong, Nan ^h   Qin, Jiong ^a   Wu, Xiru ^a   Jiang, Yuwu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CAPITAL INSTITUTE OF PEDIATRICS   (China)

^e NATIONAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER FOR BEIJING BIOCHIP TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f CHINA JAPAN FRIENDSHIP HOSPITAL   (China)

^g CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 10P; CHROMOSOME 11Q; CHROMOSOME 12P; CHROMOSOME 14Q; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME 16P; CHROMOSOME 1P; CHROMOSOME 22Q; CHROMOSOME 2P; CHROMOSOME 3Q; CHROMOSOME 4P; CHROMOSOME 6P; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CHROMOSOME 7P; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CHROMOSOME 8P; CHROMOSOME 9P; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MULTIPLEX LIGATION DEPENDENT PROBE AMPLIFICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SUBTELOMERIC ABERRATION; ASIAN; CHINA; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PHENOTYPE; TELOMERE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE DELETION; TELOMERE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951959366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2350-11-72     Document Type: Article

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