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According to several authors cranio-cerebello-cardiac (3C) syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder. This opinion was based on pedigree inspection without formal segregation analysis. Recently, the assumption of autosomal recessive inheritance was challenged by the observation of overlapping features with 6p deletions. We therefore performed segregation analysis by means of methods described by Li and Mantel, Davie and Lange on 27 pedigrees selected from literature. The results of all three methods are consistent with autosomal recessive inheritance but their broad confidence intervals leave room for other explanations as well. Reporting of 3C cases without evaluation of 6p copy number should be discouraged from now on.
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Stellingwerff, HJ., van Hagen, J. & ten Kate, L. Segregation ratio in cranio-cerebello-cardiac syndrome. Eur J Hum Genet 14, 1054–1057 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201660
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