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Invited editorial comment: The nosology of the Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome

✍ Scribed by Penchaszadeh, Victor B. ;Opitz, John M. ;Reynolds, James F.

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1987
Tongue: English
Weight: 199 KB
Volume: 28
Category: Article
ISSN: 0148-7299
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320280319

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✦ Synopsis

A number of recent reports have called attention to a group of patients who share the main clinical findings of the Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS), albeit with an unusually severe degree of expression. This has included severe or even complete failure of genital development in males, multiple visceral anomalies and death early in life. [

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