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ArticleAmerican journal of human genetics2005

3q29 microdeletion syndrome: clinical and molecular characterization of a new syndrome.

Lionel Willatt, James Cox, John Barber, Elisabet Dachs Cabanas, Amanda Collins, Dian Donnai, David R FitzPatrick, Eddy Maher, Howard Martin, Josep Parnau and 9 more

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Article in American journal of human genetics, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 114 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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  19. Adaptive behaviour deficits in individuals with 3q29 deletion syndrome.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR · 2024
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  20. Musculoskeletal phenotypes in 3q29 deletion syndrome.American journal of medical genetics. Part A · 2023
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19 authors at 8 institutions in 2 countries.

Lionel WillattDepartment of Medical Genetics, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
James Cox
John Barber
Elisabet Dachs Cabanas
Amanda Collins
Dian Donnai
David R FitzPatrick
Eddy Maher
Howard Martin
Josep Parnau
Lesley Pindar
Jacqueline Ramsay
Charles Shaw-Smith
Erik A Sistermans
Michael Tettenborn
Dorothy Trump
Bert B A de Vries
Kate Walker
F Lucy Raymond
University of Cambridge · GBSalisbury District Hospital · GBWestern General Hospital · GBRadboud University Nijmegen · NLUniversity of Manchester · GBFrimley Park Hospital · GBNorfolk and Norwich University Hospital · GBPrincess Anne Hospital · GB

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Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report the identification of six patients with 3q29 microdeletion syndrome. The clinical phenotype is variable despite an almost identical deletion size. The phenotype includes mild-to-moderate mental retardation, with only slightly dysmorphic facial features that are similar in most patients: a long and narrow face, short philtrum, and high nasal bridge. Autism, gait ataxia, chest-wall deformity, and long and tapering fingers were noted in at least two of six patients. Additional features--including microcephaly, cleft lip and palate, horseshoe kidney and hypospadias, ligamentous laxity, recurrent middle ear infections, and abnormal pigmentation--were observed, but each feature was only found once, in a single patient. The microdeletion is approximately 1.5 Mb in length, with molecular boundaries mapping within the same or adjacent bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones at either end of the deletion in all patients. The deletion encompasses 22 genes, including PAK2 and DLG1, which are autosomal homologues of two known X-linked mental retardation genes, PAK3 and DLG3. The presence of two nearly identical low-copy repeat sequences in BAC clones on each side of the deletion breakpoint suggests that nonallelic homologous recombination is the likely mechanism of disease causation in this syndrome.

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Chromosome DeletionChromosomes, Human, Pair 3Abnormalities, MultipleChildChild, PreschoolChromosome MappingCraniofacial AbnormalitiesFemaleHumansInfantIntellectual DisabilityMalePhenotypeSyndrome

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PMID15918153
PMCPMC1226188
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