Abstract:Background
Williams Beuren Syndrome is a multisystemic disorder manifested by congenital heart defects associated with dysmorphic features, intellectual delay, and a particular behavioural profile due to a microdeletion in 7q11.2.
Methods
To establish a genotype-phenotype correlation; we carried out a molecular cytogenetic analysis on 31 Tunisian WBS patients using the CGH-array and FISH techniques.
Results
6 patients were investigated by CGH-array. All of them had a typical WBS deletion ranging from 1.4Mb … Show more
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