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Correspondence to Dr Louis C S Tan, Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore ; louis_tan{at}nni.com.sg and Dr Eng-King Tan, Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience ...

Correspondence to Dr Volker M Lauschke, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Section of Pharmacogenetics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE-171, Sweden; volker.lauschke{at}ki.se Background ...

Correspondence to M Alriyami, Department of Experimental Medicine, Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, 1001 boul Decarie, Site Glen Pavilion E/ Block E, Mail Drop Point #EM0.3211 ...

We report the molecular characterisation of two families with Angelman syndrome referred for prenatal diagnosis, in which atypical molecular findings resulted in counselling dilemmas. The first is a ...

1 Institute of Medical Genetics, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK 2 Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK 3 Department of ...

1 Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology and Universite catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 74+4, Brussels, Belgium 2 Centre for Human Genetics, ...