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Short stature, mental retardation, eye anomalies, and cleft lip/palate
A Richieri-Costa1, M L Guion-Almeida
1Serviço de Genética Clínica, Hospital de Pesquisa e Reabilitação de Lesões Lábio-Palatais, Universidade de São Paulo, Bauru, Brazil.
American Journal of Medical Genetics
|February 15, 1992
Abstract:
The syndrome: We describe 3 Brazilian brothers presenting a cluster of signs strongly suggesting a "new" MCA/MR syndrome. The main clinical signs include short stature, microbrachycephaly, mental retardation, palpebral ptosis, coloboma of iris and retina, nystagmus, strabismus, and cleft lip/palate. This is either an autosomal or X-linked recessive trait.