Article
Oro-facial-digital syndrome IX with severe microcephaly: a new variant in a genetically isolated population.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 15 Dec 2007
Erickson Robert P, Bodensteiner John B
Abstract excerpt
We describe four patients, two pairs of siblings, with a somewhat unique oro-facial-digital syndrome. The siblings come from the Navajo population which has undergone several genetic "bottlenecks." Thus, as would be anticipated, this syndrome seems to show autosomal recessive inheritance. The combination of the presence of retinal colobomata and the paucity of digital findings in these patients leads us to...
Topics
- Abnormalities, Multiple
- Adolescent
- Alleles
- Child
- Face
- Facies
- Family Health
- Female
- Humans
- Indians, North American
- Male
- Microcephaly
- Orofaciodigital Syndromes
- Population Groups
- Syndrome
