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ArticleGenomic medicine2008

Two sisters with Rett syndrome and non-identical paternally-derived microdeletions in the MECP2 gene.

Lyndon G Rosser, Shane McKee, David S Millar, Hayley Archer, James Hughes, Rachel Butler, Nadia Chuzhanova, David N Cooper, Lazarus P Lazarou

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Article in Genomic medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Monozygotic twins with Rett syndrome: Phenotyping the first two years of life.Journal of developmental and physical disabilities · 2014
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Lyndon G RosserInstitute of Medical Genetics, Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4XW, UK.
Shane McKee
David S Millar
Hayley Archer
James Hughes
Rachel Butler
Nadia Chuzhanova
David N Cooper
Lazarus P Lazarou
University Hospital of Wales · GBCardiff University · GBCardiff and Vale University Health Board · GBDaisy Hill Hospital · GBUniversity of Central Lancashire · GBUniversity of Ulster · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The unique case of two sisters with symptoms of RTT and two quite distinct, novel, and apparently de novo microdeletions of the MECP2 gene is described. One sister possessed an 18 base-pair (bp) deletion (c.1155_1172del18) within the deletion hotspot region of exon 4, whereas the other sister exhibited a 43 bp deletion at a different location in the same exon (c.1448_1461del14+29). Although these lesions occurred on the same paternally-derived X chromosome, this is probably due to chance co-occurrence owing to the relatively high mutation rate of the MECP2 gene rather than to a constitutional mutator phenotype.

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PMID18810657
PMCPMC2694857
OpenAlexW2088671548

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