The phenotype of patients with 4q-syndrome

Genetic Counseling

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 195-205

  Strehle, Eugen Matthias ^a,b   Bantock, H M ^a  

^a Northern Health Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

4q syndrome; Interstitial deletion; Phenotype; Review; Terminal deletion

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHROMOSOME 4Q; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; FACE MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FINGER MALFORMATION; GENE DELETION; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; MORTALITY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRENATAL GROWTH; REVIEW; SKELETON MALFORMATION; SURVIVAL; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; SYNDROME;

EID: 0038006216     PISSN: 10158146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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