1. Clinical utility gene card for: Cornelia de Lange syndrome.
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Ramos, Feliciano J, Puisac, Beatriz, Baquero-Montoya, Carolina, Gil-Rodríguez, Ma Concepción, Bueno, Inés, Deardorff, Matthew A, Hennekam, Raoul C, Kaiser, Frank J, Krantz, Ian D, Musio, Antonio, Selicorni, Angelo, FitzPatrick, David R, and Pié, Juan
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DE Lange's syndrome ,MUSCLE dysmorphia ,INTELLECTUAL disabilities ,MUSCLE diseases ,MUTATION-selection balance - Abstract
The article presents a study about the Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) caused by the mutations in Nipped-B-like protein (NIPBL). It states that CdLS is characterized by facial dysmorphism, intellectual disability and retardation. It also notes that the patients with CdLS have an identifiable mutation in the NIPBL gene with somatic mosaicism.
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- 2015
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