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19p13.2 Microdeletion including NFIX associated with overgrowth and intellectual disability suggestive of Malan syndrome
Background Overgrowth syndromes represent clinically and genetically heterogeneous conditions characterized by a wide spectrum of malformations, tall stature, intellectual disability and/or macrocephaly. Results In a cohort of four clinically characterized patients with overgrowth syndrome without known causative gene mutation, we performed an Illumina SNP-array analysis to identify the pathogenic copy number variations. We identified two rare copy number variations harboring overgrowth syndrome related genes. Patient 1 was Malan syndrome with a 1.4?Mb 19p13.2-13.13 microdeletion including NFIX , and Patient 2 was identified as Sotos syndrome with a 1.6?Mb 5q35.2 microdeletion encompassing NSD1 . Conclusions We identified two patients associated with Manlan syndrome and Sotos syndrome respectively. We also discuss the use of the microarrays-based candidate gene strategy in Mendelian disease-gene identification.
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