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Characterization of facial phenotypes of children with congenital hypopituitarism and their parents: a matched case-control study.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Jul 2015
Manousaki Despoina, Allanson Judith, Wolf Lior, Deal Cheri
Abstract excerpt
Congenital Hypopituitarism (CH) has traditionally been associated with specific facial phenotypes subsumed under the term midface retrusion, based on cephalometric studies. In this study, we used a systematic anthropometric approach to facial morphology in 37 individuals with CH and their parents, primarily of French Canadian ancestry, and compared them to a control group of 78 French Canadian patients with...
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