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. 1996 Jan;33(1):82–83. doi: 10.1136/jmg.33.1.82

Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome with deletions of FISH probe RT1 at 16p13.3: two UK patients.

J M McGaughran 1, L Gaunt 1, J Dore 1, F Petrij 1, H G Dauwerse 1, D Donnai 1
PMCID: PMC1051820  PMID: 8825057

Abstract

We report two patients with Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome out of a total of 16 tested who have a deletion of the region visualised by the cosmid probe RT1. These results further confirm this as a locus for Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome.

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