Williams-beuren syndrome: A clinical study of 55 Brazilian patients and the diagnostic use of MLPA

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Honjo, Rachel Sayuri ^a   Dutra, Roberta Lelis ^a   Furusawa, Erika Arai ^a   Zanardo, Evelin Aline ^a   Costa, Larissa Sampaio De Athayde ^a   Kulikowski, Leslie Domenici ^a   Bertola, Debora Romeo ^a   Kim, Chong Ae ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA SUPRAVALVULAR STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LOUDNESS RECRUITMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MULTIPLEX LIGATION DEPENDENT PROBE AMPLIFICATION; PANIC; PULMONARY ARTERY STENOSIS; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; SCOLIOSIS; SHORT STATURE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME; BRAZIL; CHROMOSOME DELETION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME DELETION; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PHENOTYPE; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 84930960304     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/903175     Document Type: Article

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