Autosomal recessive severe dwarfism in a sicilian girl: A new form of osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism?

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 265-268

  Corsello, Giovanni ^a   Albanese, Achille ^a   Piccione, Maria ^a   Giuffrè, Mario ^a   Opitz, John M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b Foundation for Developmental and Medical Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

autosomal recessive inheritance; growth retardation; osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BONE DYSPLASIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DWARFISM; FEMALE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON MALFORMATION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; BONE AND BONES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSANGUINITY; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; DWARFISM; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; HUMANS;

EID: 0030443744     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19961218)66:3<265::AID-AJMG5>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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