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Author Information
By David L. Rimoin, MD, PhD, Chairman of the Department of
Pediatrics, Director of the Medical Genetics Institute, Steven
Spielberg Family Chair in Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center;
Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Vice Chairman of the Department
of Pediatrics, Program Director of the Intercampus Medical Genetics
Training Program, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of
California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, US; J. Michael Connor,
Professor and Head of Department, Institute of Medical Genetics,
Glasgow, UK; Reed E. Pyeritz, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine &
Genetics; Chief, Division of Medical Genetics, University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, US; and Bruce R.
Korf, MD, PhD, Chair of Medical Genetics, Department of Human
Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, US



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