Review and hypothesis: Syndromes with severe intrauterine growth restriction and very short stature - Are they related to the epigenetic mechanism(s) of fetal survival involved in the developmental origins of adult health and disease?

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 512-527

  Hall, Judith G ^a  

^a CHILDREN S AND WOMEN S HEALTH CENTRE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

3 M syndrome; Bloom syndrome; Developmental origins of adult health and disease; Dubowitz syndrome; Epigenetic; Fetal survival mechanism; Floating Harbor syndrome; Imprinting; IUGR; MOPD II; Mulibrey Nanism; SHORT syndrome; Silver Russell syndrome phenotype; Syndromes

Indexed keywords

BLOOM SYNDROME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOWN REGULATION; DUBOWITZ SYNDROME; DWARFISM; EPIGENETICS; FLOATING HARBOR SYNDROME; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MICROCEPHALY; MULIBREY NANISM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHORT STATURE; SILVER RUSSELL SYNDROME; SURVIVAL RATE;

BLOOM SYNDROME; BODY HEIGHT; CHROMOSOMES; DWARFISM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SILVER-RUSSELL SYNDROME; SYNDROME;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 75449091788     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.33251     Document Type: Review

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