VATER/VACTERL association: Identification of seven new twin pairs, a systematic review of the literature, and a classical twin analysis

Clinical Dysmorphology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 191-195

  Bartels, Enrika ^a   Schulz, Anna C ^b   Mora, Nicole W ^h   Pineda Alvarez, Daniel E ^h   Wijers, Charlotte H W ⁱ   Marcelis, Carlo M ^j   Stressig, Rüdiger ^f   Ritgen, Jochen ^f   Schmiedeke, Eberhard ^a,g   Mattheisen, Manuel ^a,b,c   Draaken, Markus ^a   Hoffmann, Per ^a   Hilger, Alina C ^a   Dworschak, Gabriel C ^a   Baudisch, Friederike ^a,d   Ludwig, Michael ^d   Bagci, Soyhan ^b   Müller, Andreas ^b   Gembruch, Ulrich ^e   Geipel, Annegret ^e   Berg, Christoph ^e   Bartmann, Peter ^b   Nöthen, Markus M ^a   Van Rooij, Iris A L M ⁱ   Solomon, Benjamin D ^h   Reutter, Heiko M ^a,b   more..

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^f Praenatalde   (Germany)

^g Hospital Bremen Mitte   (Germany)

^h NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ NONE   (United States)

^j RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

more..

Author keywords

concordant; discordant; dizygous; monozygous; twin study; VACTERL association

Indexed keywords

ANUS ATRESIA; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; LIMB MALFORMATION; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYNDROME VACTERL; SYNDROME VATER; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION;

ANUS, IMPERFORATE; DISEASES IN TWINS; ESOPHAGUS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; RADIUS; SPINE; TRACHEA; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84865960184     PISSN: 09628827     EISSN: 14735717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCD.0b013e328358243c     Document Type: Review

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