Article
Lethal Pallister-Killian syndrome: phenotypic similarity with Fryns syndrome.
American journal of medical genetics - 1 Nov 1994
Rodríguez J I, Garcia I, Alvarez J, Delicado A, Palacios J
Abstract excerpt
The Pallister-Killian syndrome is a sporadic multiple congenital anomaly syndrome characterized by "coarse" face, profound mental retardation, and epilepsy. Chromosomes of peripheral lymphocytes are usually normal, but tissue cultures show varying degrees of mosaicism for isochromosome 12p. In babies who die neonatally of severe malformations, including diaphragmatic hernia, and who also have a "coarse" face,...
Topics
- Abnormalities, Multiple
- Aneuploidy
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Epilepsy
- Face
- Female
- Genes, Lethal
- Hernia, Diaphragmatic
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization
