Y-Craniosynostosis by premature fusion of the metopic and coronal sutures: A new nosological entity or a variety of Saethre-Chotzen syndrome?

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 305-309

  di Rocco, Federico ^a   Benoit, Alexandra ^a   Vigneron, Jacqueline ^b   Segura, Pascale Bach ^c   Klein, Olivier ^d   Collet, Corinne ^a,e   Arnaud, Eric ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b Maternite Regionale Universitaire   (France)

^c Service de Radiologie   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^e HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

Author keywords

Antenatal diagnosis; Craniosynostosis; Microdeletion; Twist1

Indexed keywords

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLY; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME DELETION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FERD3L GENE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GENE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HYPERTELORISM; INFANT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; THSD7A GENE; TWIST1 GENE; ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLIA; CHROMOSOME 7; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CRANIAL SUTURE; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; TWIST1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLIA; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CRANIAL SUTURES; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; HUMANS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 84937397222     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.23367     Document Type: Article

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