Cataracts, motor system disorder, short stature, learning difficulties, and skeletal abnormalities: A new syndrome?

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 42-47

  Slavotinek, Anne M ^a,c   Pike, Mike ^a   Mills, Kevin ^b   Hurst, Jane A ^a  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

autosomal dominant; cataracts; motor system disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CATARACT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; LENSECTOMY; MALE; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT STATURE; SKELETON MALFORMATION; SYNDROME; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CATARACT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DWARFISM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; SYNDROME;

EID: 0029966693     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19960301)62:1<42::AID-AJMG9>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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