Smith-Fineman-Myers syndrome: report on a large family.

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Smith-Fineman-Myers syndrome is considered an X-linked mental retardation (XLMR) syndrome. Three families have been reported to date. However, none presented a typical pattern of X-linked inheritance. Here we reported on 5 males with Smith-Fineman-Myers syndrome with similar phenotypic expression as in those cases reported previously; they were distributed in 4 sibships of one large maternal kindred. This finding...

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