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Table 1 Examples of diseases caused by non-allelic HR.

From: How homologous recombination generates a mutable genome

Disease

Inheritance

Type of NAHR

Size

OMIM

Velocardiofacial syndrome

Autosomal dominant

Deletion

3 Mb

192430

Haemophilia A

X-linked recessive

Inversion

500 kb

306700

Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1A

Autosomal dominant

Duplication

1.5 Mb

118220

AZFa

Y-linked

Deletion

800 kb

400042

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Autosomal recessive

Gene conversion

N/A

201910

Gaucher disease

Autosomal recessive

Gene conversion

N/A

230800

Hunter syndrome

X-linked recessive

Inversion

20 kb

309900

Prader-Willi Syndrome

Autosomal dominant

Deletion

3.5 Mb

176270

Alpha-thalassaemia

Autosomal recessive

Deletion

3.7 kb*

141800

  1. NAHR, non-allelic homologous recombination; OMIM, database of online Mendelian inheritance in Man; Mb, megabases; kb, kilobases.
  2. * There are alpha-globin deletions of varying sizes, this is one of the smallest.