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SUBMITTER: Cho EH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3468769 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cho Eun-Hae EH Kim Sook-Young SY Kim Jin-Kyung JK
Journal of Korean medical science 20121002 10
Terminal or interstitial deletions of Xp (Xp22.2→Xpter) in males have been recognized as a cause of contiguous gene syndromes showing variable association of apparently unrelated clinical manifestations such as Leri-Weill dyschondrosteosis (SHOX), chondrodysplasia punctata (CDPX1), mental retardation (NLGN4), ichthyosis (STS), Kallmann syndrome (KAL1), and ocular albinism (GPR143). Here we present a case of a 13.5 yr old boy and sister with a same terminal deletion of Xp22.2 resulting in the abs ...[more]