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Expanding the phenotype of craniofrontonasal syndrome: two unrelated boys with EFNB1 mutations and congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Jul 2006
Vasudevan Pradeep C, Twigg Stephen R F, Mulliken John B, Cook Jackie A, Quarrell Oliver W J, Wilkie Andrew O M
Abstract excerpt
Craniofrontonasal syndrome (CFNS, MIM 304110) is an X-linked craniofacial disorder that shows paradoxically greater severity in heterozygous females than in hemizygous males. Mutations have been identified in the EFNB1 gene that encodes a member of the ephrin-B family of transmembrane ligands for Eph receptor tyrosine kinases. Here, we describe two unrelated families, in both of which a mother and her son have...
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