TY - JOUR T1 - Confirmation of the assignment of the Sanjad-Sakati (congenital hypoparathyroidism) syndrome (OMIM 241410) locus to chromosome lq42-43 JF - Journal of Medical Genetics JO - J Med Genet SP - 63 LP - 64 DO - 10.1136/jmg.37.1.63 VL - 37 IS - 1 AU - THADDEUS E KELLY AU - SUSAN BLANTON AU - RAMLA SAIF AU - SAMI A SANJAD AU - NADIA A SAKATI Y1 - 2000/01/01 UR - http://jmg.bmj.com/content/37/1/63.abstract N2 - Editor—Over the past 12 years, 26 patients with an unusual syndrome of congenital hypoparathyroidism associated with severe prenatal and postnatal growth retardation and a pattern of facial anomalies have been seen at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Saudi Arabia.1 2 The disorder has been listed by McKusick in OMIM as “hypoparathyroidism-retardation-dysmorphism syndrome; HRD” as entry 241410. Recently, Parvari et al 3 reported the assignment of the gene for this disorder to chromosome 1 at 1q42-43. Their report was based on a study of consanguineous Bedouin families from Israel and their linkage analysis was based on homozygosity by descent.4 This reports describes a study of three consanguineous Saudi families, which yielded results consistent with the 1q42-43 location of the responsible gene.Blood samples were collected and DNA … ER -