Session 14	Date Sept 18th		Chairman: Bert de Vries	Title Session MR – Gene identification
Time	Old Abstract #	New abstract #	Presenter	Title Presentation
14:40 – 15:00	18	55	Bert de Vries	Identifying novel microdeletion mental retardation syndromes and candidate regions for autosomal mental retardation
15:00 – 15:20	88	56	Zafar Iqbar	IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL GENES FOR AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE MENTAL RETARDATION IN PAKISTANI POPULATION
15:20 – 15:40	89	57	Christiane Zweier	Autosomal recessive, severe mental retardation resembling Pitt-Hopkins syndrome is caused by defects in two novel genes targeting a common synaptic protein in Drosophila
15:40 – 16:00	59	58	Anna Hackett	CASK MUTATIONS CAUSE X-LINKED NYSTAGMUS AND VARIABLE XLMR PHENOTYPES
16:00 – 16:20	10	59	Hans-Hilger Ropers	LOSS OF THE KINETOCHORE PROTEIN BOD1 LEADS TO MENTAL RETARDATION AND OVARIAN FAILURE
16:20 – 16:40	26	60	Jozef Gecz	MUTATIONS IN IQSEC2, A GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR FOR ARF6, CAUSE NON-SYNDROMIC MENTAL RETARDATION