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A Young Infant with Joint Swellings and Subcutaneous Nodules

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The authors thank the patient and his family for their co-operation. They acknowledge the Perkin-Elmer laboratories who performed genetic analysis of the child.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital, New Delhi, 110001, India

    Aakanksha Choudhary, Bijoy Patra & Suvasini Sharma

  2. Institute of Medical Genetics and Genomics, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India

    Sunita Bijarnia-Mahay

  3. Department of Neurology, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Smt. SK Hospital, New Delhi, India

    Divyani Garg

  4. Enzyvant Sciences, Basel, Switzerland

    Alex Solyom

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AC, BP, SBM, AS and SS: Clinical patient care and diagnostics; SS, SBM and AS: Evaluation and interpretation of metabolic, genetic, and neuroradiological results; AC, DG, SBM, AS and SS: Drafting and writing of the manuscript. SS is the guarantor for this paper.

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Choudhary, A., Bijarnia-Mahay, S., Garg, D. et al. A Young Infant with Joint Swellings and Subcutaneous Nodules. Indian J Pediatr 88, 521–522 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-020-03270-7

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