Rare Copy Number Variants Are a Common Cause of Short Stature

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Zahnleiter, Diana ^a   Uebe, Steffen ^a   Ekici, Arif B ^a   Hoyer, Juliane ^a   Wiesener, Antje ^a   Wieczorek, Dagmar ^b   Kunstmann, Erdmute ^c   Reis, André ^a   Doerr, Helmuth Guenther ^a   Rauch, Anita ^d   Thiel, Christian T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GROWTH RETARDATION; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARENT; SHORT STATURE;

ANIMALS; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DWARFISM; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

MURINAE;

EID: 84875975345     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003365     Document Type: Article

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