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Mutations in FLVCR2 associated with Fowler syndrome and survival beyond infancy.
Clinical genetics - 1 Jan 2016
Kvarnung M, Taylan F, Nilsson D, Albåge M, Nordenskjöld M, Anderlid B M, Nordgren A, Syk Lundberg E
Abstract excerpt
Proliferative vasculopathy and hydranencephaly-hydrocephaly syndrome (PVHH, OMIM 225790), also known as Fowler syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, caused by mutations in FLVCR2. Hallmarks of the syndrome are glomerular vasculopathy in the central nervous system, severe hydrocephaly, hypokinesia and arthrogryphosis. The disorder is considered prenatally lethal. We report the first patients, a brother...
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