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SUBMITTER: Tommiska J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5668380 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20171103 1
Familial growth hormone deficiency provides an opportunity to identify new genetic causes of short stature. Here we combine linkage analysis with whole-genome resequencing in patients with growth hormone deficiency and maternally inherited gingival fibromatosis. We report that patients from three unrelated families harbor either of two missense mutations, c.347G>T p.(Arg116Leu) or c.1106C>T p.(Pro369Leu), in KCNQ1, a gene previously implicated in the long QT interval syndrome. Kcnq1 is expressed ...[more]