Article
Novel autosomal dominant mandibulofacial dysostosis with ptosis: clinical description and exclusion of TCOF1.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Jul 2002
Hedera P, Toriello H V, Petty E M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Treacher Collins syndrome (TCS), the most common type of mandibulofacial dysostosis (MFD), is genetically homogeneous. Other types of MFD are less common and, of these, only the Bauru type of MFD has an autosomal dominant (AD) mode of inheritance established. Here we report clinical features of a kindred with a unique AD MFD with the exclusion of linkage to the TCS locus (TCOF1) on chromosome...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Blepharoptosis
- Child
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5
- Deafness
- Female
- Genes, Dominant
- Genetic Heterogeneity
- Genetic Linkage
- Humans
- Male
- Mandibulofacial Dysostosis
- Nuclear Family
- Nuclear Proteins
- Pedigree
- Phenotype
- Phosphoproteins
