"Shifted" Threshold May Explain Diversity of Cardiovascular Malformations in Multiple Congenital Abnormalities Syndromes: 3C (Ritscher-Schinzel) Syndrome as an Example

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Seminars in Medical Genetics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 72-74

  Lurie, Iosif W ^a,b   Ferencz, Charlotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

3C (Ritscher Schinzel) syndrome; Cardiovascular malformations; Multiple congenital abnormalities; Polygenic threshold model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CHILD; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNDROME;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SYNDROME;

EID: 0029907485     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19961202)66:1<72::AID-AJMG16>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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