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NATURE GENETICS
Volume 41, Issue 5, Pages 535-543Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/ng.367
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- European Community's Seventh Framework Programme-the GEN2PHEN Project
- New South Wales Department of Health
- Australian NHMRC
- SMILE foundation
- WCH Foundation
- D. Harwood, EU (EURO-MRX) [QLG3-CT-2002-01810]
- US National Institutes of Health [HD26202]
- South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs (SCDDSN)
- Action Medical Research
- Wellcome Trust
- Cancer Research UK [11022, 10118] Funding Source: researchfish
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Large-scale systematic resequencing has been proposed as the key future strategy for the discovery of rare, disease-causing sequence variants across the spectrum of human complex disease. We have sequenced the coding exons of the X chromosome in 208 families with X-linked mental retardation (XLMR), the largest direct screen for constitutional disease-causing mutations thus far reported. The screen has discovered nine genes implicated in XLMR, including SYP, ZNF711 and CASK reported here, confirming the power of this strategy. The study has, however, also highlighted issues confronting whole-genome sequencing screens, including the observation that loss of function of 1% or more of X-chromosome genes is compatible with apparently normal existence.
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