Inborn Errors of Morphogenesis: A Review of Localized Hereditary Malformations

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 291, Issue 15, 1974, Pages 763-773

  Holmes, Lewis B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBULIN; FETOPROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL; CHICK EMBRYO; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; DOMINANT GENE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; FIBER OPTICS; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; MUTATION; NEWBORN; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RACE; RADIOGRAPHY; RECESSIVE GENE; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME;

ABNORMALITIES; ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ALLELES; ALPHA-GLOBULINS; AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL PROTEINS; FIBER OPTICS; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, RECESSIVE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

EID: 0016389465     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM197410102911505     Document Type: Review

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