Clinical and descriptive genetic study of polydactyly: A Pakistani experience of 313 cases

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 482-486

  Malik, S ^a   Ullah, S ^a   Afzal, M ^a   Lal, K ^a   Haque, S ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Descriptive epidemiology genetic epidemiology; Pakistani population; Phenotypic variability; Polydactyly

Indexed keywords

ARM; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; BRACHYDACTYLY; CLINICAL GENETICS; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; FAMILY; FEMALE; FINGER; FOOT; HAND; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LEG; LIMB; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAKISTAN; PEDIGREE; POLYDACTYLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYNDACTYLY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FOOT MALFORMATION; GENETICS; HAND MALFORMATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOOT DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; HAND DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE; PAKISTAN; PEDIGREE; POLYDACTYLY;

EID: 84897398097     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: 13990004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cge.12217     Document Type: Article

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