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SUBMITTER: Patel N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5534118 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Patel Nisha N Khan Arif O AO Al-Saif Maher M Moghrabi Walid N WN AlMaarik Balsam M BM Ibrahim Niema N Abdulwahab Firdous F Hashem Mais M Alshidi Tarfa T Alobeid Eman E Alomar Rana A RA Al-Harbi Saad S Abouelhoda Mohamed M Khabar Khalid S A KSA Alkuraya Fowzan S FS
Genome biology 20170728 1
<h4>Background</h4>Variable expressivity is a well-known phenomenon in which patients with mutations in one gene display varying degrees of clinical severity, potentially displaying only subsets of the clinical manifestations associated with the multisystem disorder linked to the gene. This remains an incompletely understood phenomenon with proposed mechanisms ranging from allele-specific to stochastic.<h4>Results</h4>We report three consanguineous families in which an isolated ocular phenotype ...[more]