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Anesthesiologic problems in Williams syndrome: the CACNL2A locus is not involved

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We present the case of a patient affected with Williams syndrome (WS), who developed a suspected malignant hyperthermia (MH) reaction to general anesthesia. The proximity to the WS region of the gene encoding the L-type voltage-gated calcium channel α2/δ-subunit (CACNL2A) on 7q11.23–q21.1, previously shown to be closely linked to some forms of MH susceptibility, prompted us to investigate whether this gene is deleted in WS. Linkage studies and fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis demonstrated that the CACNL2A locus is localized outside the WS deleted region.

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  1. Medical Genetics Service, Department of Pediatrics, University of Padua, via Giustiniani, I-335128 Padua, Italy Tel./Fax: +39-49-8213513, , , , , , IT

    Isabella Mammi, Maurizio Clementi & R. Tenconi

  2. Department of Cell Biology and Histology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Catholic University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, , , , , , NL

    David E. Iles

  3. Department of Human Genetics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Catholic University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, , , , , , NL

    Dominique Smeets

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Received: 19 February 1996 / Revised: 16 March 1996

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Mammi, I., Iles, D., Smeets, D. et al. Anesthesiologic problems in Williams syndrome: the CACNL2A locus is not involved. Hum Genet 98, 317–320 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004390050214

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