European Journal of Human Genetics - Clinical utility gene card for: Werner syndrome

Clinical Utility Gene Card
European Journal of Human Genetics advance online publication 18 January 2012; doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2011.265

Clinical utility gene card for: Werner syndrome
Fuki M Hisama1, Christian Kubisch2, George M Martin3 and Junko Oshima3
1Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
2Institute of Human Genetics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
3Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Correspondence: Dr FM Hisama, Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Box 357720, 1959 NE Pacific St., Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Tel: +1 206 598 4030; Fax: +1 206 598 3269; E-mail: fmh2@u.washington.edu

Top of page1. DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS
1.1 Name of the disease (synonyms)
Werner syndrome, Werner's syndrome, adult-onset progeria.

1.2 OMIM# of the disease
277700.

1.3 Name of the analysed genes or DNA/chromosome segments
WRN (RECQL2, RECQ3).

1.4 OMIM# of the gene(s)
604611.


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European Journal of Human Genetics - Clinical utility gene card for: Werner syndrome