Dissecting Hirschsprung disease

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Passarge, E [1 ]
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[1] Univ Essen Gesamthsch Klinikum, Inst Humangenet, D-45122 Essen, Germany
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10.1038/ng878
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Q3 [遗传学];
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071007 ; 090102 ;
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Nonsyndromic Hirschsprung disease, hitherto assumed to be a multifactorial disease with a threshold effect due to an unknown number of genes, has been genetically dissected and shown to result from an interaction between just three loci, two of which have not previously been associated with the disease. Oligogenic inheritance can explain the main aspects of its genetic
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