7q11.23 Microduplication: A recognizable phenotype

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 155-161

  Dixit, A ^a   McKee, S ^b   Mansour, S ^c   Mehta, S G ^d   Tanteles, G A ^e   Anastasiadou, V ^e   Patsalis, P C ^e   Martin, K ^a   McCullough, S ^b   Suri, M ^a   Sarkar, A ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

7q11.23 microduplication; Autism spectrum disorder; Speech delay; Williams Beuren critical region

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CHROMOSOME 7Q11.23; CLEFT LIP PALATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; EPILEPSY; FACE DYSMORPHIA; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; JOINT LAXITY; LEARNING DISORDER; LIP MALFORMATION; MALE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT PHILTRUM; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH DISORDER; THIN LIP; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 84872017985     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: 13990004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2012.01862.x     Document Type: Article

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