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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Lucy Osborne
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-622 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
O'Leary Jennifer J Osborne Lucy R LR
PloS one 20110831 8
<h4>Background</h4>Williams-Beuren Syndrome (WBS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a hemizygous deletion of a 1.5 Mb region on chromosome 7q11.23 encompassing 26 genes. One of these genes, GTF2IRD1, codes for a putative transcription factor that is expressed throughout the brain during development. Genotype-phenotype studies in patients with atypical deletions of 7q11.23 implicate this gene in the neurological features of WBS, and Gtf2ird1 knockout mice show reduced innate fear and inc ...[more]