The Slavic NBN Founder Mutation: A Role for Reproductive Fitness?

The Slavic NBN Founder Mutation: A Role for Reproductive Fitness?

The vast majority of patients with Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome (NBS) are of Slavic origin and carry a deleterious deletion (c.657del5; rs587776650) in the NBN gene on chromosome 8q21. This mutation is essentially confined to Slavic populations and may thus be considered a Slavic founder mutation. Not...

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Main Authors: Seemanova, Eva, Varon, Raymonda, Vejvalka, Jan, Jarolim, Petr, Seeman, Pavel, Chrzanowska, Krystyna H., Digweed, Martin, Resnick, Igor, Kremensky, Ivo, Saar, Kathrin, Hoffmann, Katrin, Dutrannoy, Véronique, Karbasiyan, Mohsen, Ghani, Mehdi, Barić, Ivo, Tekin, Mustafa, Kovacs, Peter, Krawczak, Michael, Reis, André, Sperling, Karl, Nothnagel, Michael
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5148078/

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