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Parul Bhagwati Jayakar, MD, MS, FACMG Director of Neurogenetics/Metabolic Program, Director of Cytogenetics Laboratory, Consultant in Clinical Genetics, Division of Genetics and Metabolism, Miami Children's Hospital; Assistant Professor, Genetics Residency Program Director, University of Miami, Leonard M Miller School of Medicine

Parul Bhagwati Jayakar, MD, MS, FACMG is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, American Society of Human Genetics

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Luis O Rohena, MD, PhD, FAAP, FACMG Deputy Chief, Department of Pediatrics, Chief, Medical Genetics, San Antonio Military Medical Center; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F Edward Hebert School of Medicine; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

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The authors and editors of Medscape Reference gratefully acknowledge the contributions of previous authors Suzanne M Carter, MS, and Susan J Gross, MD, FRCS(C), FACOG, FACMG, to the original writing and development of this article.

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