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Molecular study of 33 families with Fraser syndrome new data and mutation review.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Sept 2008
van Haelst M M, Maiburg M, Baujat G, Jadeja S, Monti E, Bland E, Pearce K, Hennekam R C, Scambler P J
Abstract excerpt
Fraser syndrome (FS) is an autosomal recessive malformation disorder characterized by cryptophthalmos, syndactyly, and abnormalities of the respiratory and urogenital tract. FS is considered to be the human equivalent of the murine blebbing mutants: in the mouse mutations at five loci cause a phenotype that is comparable to FS in humans, and thus far mutations in two syntenic human genes, FRAS1 and FREM2, have...
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