Mirror-image asymmetry in monozygotic twins with Kabuki syndrome

Molecular Syndromology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 94-97

  Riess, A ^a   Dufke, A ^a   Riess, O ^a   Beck Woedl, S ^a   Fode, B ^b   Skladny, H ^c   Klaes, R ^c   Tzschach, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Centre for Human Genetics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deletion; Kabuki syndrome; Mirror image asymmetry; MLL2; Monozygotic twins

Indexed keywords

MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA 2 PROTEIN; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRACHYDACTYLY; CASE REPORT; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; CRYPTORCHISM; EXON; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACIES; FEEDING DISORDER; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; KABUKI MAKEUP SYNDROME; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; MIRROR IMAGE ASYMMETRY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NAIL HYPOPLASIA; NEWBORN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84865322970     PISSN: 16618769     EISSN: 16618777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000341251     Document Type: Article

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