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Ellis-van Creveld syndrome: Report of a case and recurrent variant.
The journal of gene medicine - 1 Jun 2020
Eftekhariyazdi Mitra, Meshkani Mahshid, Moslem Alireza, Hakimi Pooria, Safari Shamsi, Khaligh Ali, Zare-Abdollahi Davood
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Ellis-van Creveld syndrome (EvCS) is a rare autosomal recessive skeletal dysplasia that is characterized by short stature, short limbs, short ribs, polydactyly and structural heart defect. Despite locus heterogeneity, in the majority of the cases, the disorder segregates with mutations in the EVC and EVC2 genes, notably mutations with truncating protein as a final sequence. In the present study, we...
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