A novel deletion mutation in the <it>TUSC3 </it>gene in a consanguineous Pakistani family with autosomal recessive nonsyndromic intellectual disability

• Main Authors: Ali Nadir (Author), Noor Abdul (Author), Rafiq Muhammad (Author), Khan Muzammil (Author), Ali Ghazanfar (Author), Vincent John B (Author), Ansar Muhammad (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Intellectual disability (ID) is a serious disorder of the central nervous system with a prevalence of 1-3% in a general population. In the past decades, the research focus has been predominantly on X-linked ID (68 loci and 19 genes f...