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The oto-palado-digital syndrome (OPD) is a rare X-linked disease with diagnostic skeletal features, conduction deafness, cleft palate and mild mental retardation. Differences in clinical presentation between families have led investigators to classify OPD into two subtypes: type I and type II. A linkage study performed in one family segregating for OPD I has recently suggested linkage to three marker loci: DXS15, DXS52 at Xq28, and DXS86 at Xq26. We have investigated an additional OPD I family for linkage by using distal chromosome Xq DNA probes. The linkage data and the analysis of recombination events that have occurred in this family excluded, definitively, the Xq26 region for OPD I, and provide further support for mapping the mutant gene close to the cluster of tightly linked markers DXS15, DXS52 and DXS305 at Xq28.
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Biancalana, V., Le Marec, B., Odent, S. et al. Oto-palato-digital syndrome type I: further evidence for assignment of the locus to Xq28. Hum Genet 88, 228–230 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00206078
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