Identification of subtelomeric genomic imbalances and breakpoint mapping with quantitative PCR in 296 individuals with congenital defects and/or mental retardation

Bernd Auber¹ , Verena Bruemmer¹ , Barbara Zoll¹ , Peter Burfeind¹ , Detlef Boehm² , Thomas Liehr³ , Knut Brockmann⁴ , Ekkehard Wilichowski⁴ , Loukas Argyriou⁵ and Iris Bartels¹

¹  Institute of Human Genetics, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany

²  Center for Human Genetics, Freiburg, Germany

³  Institute of Human Genetics, University of Jena, Jena, Germany

⁴  Department of Paediatrics and Paediatric Neurology, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany

⁵  Institute of Human Genetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany