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Short reports

• A small interstitial deletion in the GPC3 gene causes Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome in a Dutch-Canadian family (1 January, 1999)

  Jian Y Xuan, Rhiannon M Hughes-Benzie, Alex E MacKenzie
• Myotonic dystrophy: the correlation of (CTG) repeat length in leucocytes with age at onset is significant only for patients with small expansions (1 January, 1999)

  Marion G Hamshere, Helen Harley, Peter Harper, J David Brook, John F Y Brookfield
• Unstable expansion of the CAG trinucleotide repeat in MAB21L1: report of a second pedigree and effect on protein expression (1 January, 1999)

  Russell L Margolis, O Colin Stine, Christopher M Ward, Mary L Franz, Adam Rosenblatt, Colleen Callahan, Meeia Sherr, Christopher A Ross, Nicholas T Potter
• Familial adenomatous polyposis associated with multiple adrenal adenomas in a patient with a rare 3′ APC mutation (1 January, 1999)

  Alex Kartheuser, Corinne Walon, Sarah West, Cor Breukel, Roger Detry, Anne-Catherine Gribomont, Tayebeh Hamzehloei, Pierre Hoang, Dominique Maiter, Jacques Pringot, Jacques Rahier, P Meera Khan, Ann Curtis, John Burn, Riccardo Fodde, Christine Verellen-Dumoulin
• High prevalence of the C634Y mutation in the RET proto-oncogene in MEN 2A families in Spain (1 January, 1999)

  Beatriz Sánchez, Mercedes Robledo, Josefina Biarnes, María-Eugenia Sáez, Victor Volpini, Javier Benítez, Elena Navarro, Agustín Ruiz, Guillermo Antiñolo, Salud Borrego
• De novo 10q22 interstitial deletion (1 January, 1999)

  Lola Cook, David D Weaver, James K Hartsfield, Gail H Vance
• Duplication of segment 1p21 following paternal insertional translocation, ins(6;1)(q25;p13.3p22.1) (1 January, 1999)

  Algirdas Utkus, Irina Sorokina, Vaidutis Kucinskas, Benno Röthlisberger, Damina Balmer, Lukrecija Brecevic, Albert Schinzel
• Molecular and cytogenetic characterisation of an unusual case of partial trisomy/partial monosomy 13 mosaicism: 46,XX,r(13)(p11q14)/46,XX,der(13)t(13;13)(q10;q14) (1 January, 1999)

  Mattia Gentile, Antonia L Buonadonna, Filomena Cariola, Paola Fiorente, Maria C Valenzano, Ginevra Guanti
• Anomalous right pulmonary artery origins in association with the fetal valproate syndrome (1 January, 1999)

  C N Mo, E J Ladusans