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Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome

What are the causes?

It is caused by a missing section (deletion) of genetic information from the tip of the short arm of chromosome 4. Chromosomes are rod like structures which store genetic information in the centre of most of our body cells.

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Medical text written February 2004 by Dr O Quarrell, Consultant in Clinical Genetics, Centre for Human Genetics, Sheffield, UK and Dr N Shannon, Consultant in Clinical Genetics, Clinical Genetics Centre, Nottingham, UK.

 

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