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What is a propositus?

What is a propositus? Here are some definitions.

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  1. The first identified case of an inherited disease in a family. The proband or index case. Propositus applies when the patient is male; proposita if female.
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Therefore, we stratified the single group analyses, including only the propositus of each family.
This variant was named Hb Gorwihl after the city where the propositus lived.
The propositus was an elderly man who passed on the disorder to three of his four children and 9 of 14 grandchildren.
Mutations were checked against parental DNA for each propositus.
A low cobalamin concentration had been noted several years earlier in the 57-year-old propositus, for which she received intermittent cobalamin injections.
Key relatives included siblings, parents, offspring, grandparents, first uncles and aunts, and the propositus.

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