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Discordance of oral-facial-digital syndrome type 1 in monozygotic twin girls.
American journal of medical genetics - 17 Sept 1999
Shotelersuk V, Tifft C J, Vacha S, Peters K F, Biesecker L G
Abstract excerpt
The oral-facial-digital syndrome type 1 (OFD1) includes limb, facial, intraoral malformations and the gene for the disorder was recently mapped to Xp22.3-p22.2. We report on monozygotic twin girls discordant for OFD1. Monozygosity is supported by placental pathology (monochorionic diamniotic) and molecular studies with probability of dizygosity <1 x 10(-6). The affected twin has oral cavity abnormalities...
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