Monozygotic twins with Apert syndrome

Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 101-104

  Breugem, Corstiaan C ^a   Fitzpatrick, Donald F ^b   Verchere, Cynthia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apert syndrome; Apert syndrome twins; Twinning syndromic craniosynostosis

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLY; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; HAND MALFORMATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLIA; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; DISEASES IN TWINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KARYOTYPING; MALE; POINT MUTATION; RECEPTOR, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR, TYPE 2; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 38549088888     PISSN: 10556656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1597/06-149.1     Document Type: Article

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