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Hannelie Engbers1, Jasper J van der Smagt, Ruben van 't Slot, Joris R Vermeesch, Ron Hochstenbach, Martin Poot.
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We report on a patient with developmental delay and several facial characteristics reminiscent of Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, who carries a terminal 4p16.3 deletion of minimally 1.691 Mb and maximally 1.698 Mb. This deletion contains the FGFRL1 gene, but does not include the WHSC1 gene. Given its expression pattern and its involvement in bone and cartilage formation during embryonic development, the FGFRL1 gene represents a plausible candidate gene for part of the facial characteristics of Wolf-Hirshhorn syndrome in 4p16.3 deletion patients.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18830230 PMCID: PMC2985965 DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2008.168
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur J Hum Genet ISSN: 1018-4813 Impact factor: 4.246