Familial aplasia/hypoplasia of pelvis, femur, fibula, and ulna with abnormal digits in an inbred Pakistani Muslim family: a possible new autosomal recessive disorder with overlapping manifestations of the syndromes of Fuhrmann, Al-Awadi, and Raas-Rothschild.

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We describe four affected children belonging to a large, highly inbred Muslim family originating from the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. All children have a similar pattern of skeletal abnormalities, including aplasia/hypoplasia of the ulnae, hypoplasia of the pelvis, aplasia/hypoplasia of the femora, fibular aplasia, and variable digital abnormalities and absent/dysplastic nails. The phenotype...

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