Myhre syndrome: A first familial recurrence and broadening of the phenotypic spectrum

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Myhre syndrome is a rare multisystem connective tissue disorder, characterized by short stature, facial dysmorphology, variable intellectual disability, skeletal abnormalities, arthropathy, cardiopathy, laryngotracheal anomalies, and stiff skin. So far, all molecularly confirmed cases harbored a de novo heterozygous gain-of-function mutation in SMAD4, encoding the SMAD4 transducer protein required for both...

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