Deletion 3q in two patients with blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus syndrome (BPES)

Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 271-276

  Costa, Teresa ^a,b,c   Pashby, Robert ^a,b   Huggins, Marlene ^a   Teshima, Ikuko E ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c IWK HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BLEPHAROPHIMOSIS; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPICANTHUS; GENE DELETION; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INGUINAL HERNIA; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PTOSIS;

BLEPHAROPHIMOSIS; BLEPHAROPTOSIS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; EYELIDS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SYNDROME;

EID: 0031669343     PISSN: 01913913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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