Duplication of the STS region in males is a benign copy-number variant

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 155, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1972-1975

  Furrow, Aubry ^a   Theisen, Aaron ^a   Velsher, Lea ^b   Bawle, Erawati V ^c   Sastry, Sujatha ^c   Mendelsohn, Nancy J ^d   Jarvis, Kristi ^d   Shaffer, Lisa G ^a   Chitayat, David ^e,f  

^a PerkinElmer   (United States)

^b NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITALS AND CLINICS OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deletion; Duplication; Microarray analysis; STS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FAMILY; FATHER; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NEPHEW; PHENOTYPE; POLYDACTYLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; STEROID SULFATASE GENE; UNCLE; X CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; STERYL-SULFATASE;

EID: 79960555492     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.33985     Document Type: Article

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