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A Chinese Patient With Alopecia-Intellectual Disability Syndrome 4 Carrying a Known Missense Variant of LSS Gene and an Unreported Gross Deletion Involving LSS Gene

  • 1Department of Genetics and Endocrinology, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Guangzhou, China.
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June 11, 2025

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