Clinical geneticists' views of VACTERL/VATER association

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 158 A, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3087-3100

  Solomon, Benjamin D ^a   Bear, Kelly A ^a,b   Kimonis, Virginia ^c   de Klein, Annelies ^d   Scott, Daryl A ^e   Shaw Smith, Charles ^f   Tibboel, Dick ^d   Reutter, Heiko ^g   Giampietro, Philip F ^h  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Walter Reed Military Medical Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

VACTERL association; VATER association

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANUS ATRESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL GENETICS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; E-MAIL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; LIMB MALFORMATION; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; UNITED STATES; VACTERL ASSOCIATION; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION;

FISTULA;

EID: 84870236551     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.35638     Document Type: Article

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