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SUBMITTER: Watanabe M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5103007 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Watanabe Miki M Nakagawa Ryuji R Kohmoto Tomohiro T Naruto Takuya T Suga Ken-Ichi KI Goji Aya A Horikawa Hideaki H Masuda Kiyoshi K Kagami Shoji S Imoto Issei I
Human genome variation 20161110
Lowe syndrome (LS) is an X-linked disorder affecting the eyes, nervous system and kidneys, typically caused by missense or nonsense/frameshift <i>OCRL</i> mutations. We report a 6-month-old male clinically suspected to have LS, but without the Fanconi-type renal dysfunction. Using a targeted-exome sequencing-first approach, LS was diagnosed by the identification of a deletion involving 1.7 Mb at Xq25-q26.1, encompassing the entire <i>OCRL</i> gene and neighboring loci. ...[more]