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ABSTRACT:
INSTRUMENT(S): AB SOLiD 4 System
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
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PROVIDER: E-GEUV-5 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
The New England journal of medicine 20121003 20
<h4>Background</h4>The causes of intellectual disability remain largely unknown because of extensive clinical and genetic heterogeneity.<h4>Methods</h4>We evaluated patients with intellectual disability to exclude known causes of the disorder. We then sequenced the coding regions of more than 21,000 genes obtained from 100 patients with an IQ below 50 and their unaffected parents. A data-analysis procedure was developed to identify and classify de novo, autosomal recessive, and X-linked mutation ...[more]