Muenke syndrome

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 297-301

  Sabatino, Gio ^a   Di Rocco, F ^a   Zampino, G ^a   Tamburrini, G ^a   Caldarelli, M ^a   Di Rocco, C ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coronal synostosis; Craniosynostosis; FGFR3 gene; Genetic analysis; Muenke syndrome; Skeletal abnormalities

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 3; PROLINE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIAL SUTURE; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIPHYSIS; FEMALE; FINGER MALFORMATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MUENKE SYNDROME; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PENETRANCE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POINT MUTATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARGININE; BONE AND BONES; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; FACIES; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MUTATION; PENETRANCE; PROLINE; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR, TYPE 3; RECEPTORS, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 2942752503     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-003-0906-y     Document Type: Article

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