Paradominant inheritance, a hypothesis explaining occasional familial occurrence of sporadic syndromes

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 359-360

  Steijlen, Peter M ^a   Van Steensel, Maurice A M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Becker's pigmented hairy nevus; Klippel Trenaunay syndrome; Mosaicism; Nevus flammeus; Paradominant; Proteus syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANGIOOSTEOHYPERTROPHY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MULTIPLE CANCER; NEVUS; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION;

GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; KLIPPEL-TRENAUNAY-WEBER SYNDROME; NEVUS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SYNDROME;

EID: 0032801893     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19990806)85:4<359::AID-AJMG10>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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