We report on two boys, monozygotic twins born to normal and nonconsanguineous parents, presenting with an unusual facial appearance, cortical atrophy, dolichocephaly, short stature, cleft palate, micrognathia, prominent upper central incisors, bilateral Sidney line, minor foot deformities, unstablen
Monozygotic twins of Smith–Magenis syndrome
✍ Scribed by Rika Kosaki; Torayuki Okuyama; Toju Tanaka; Ohsuke Migita; Kenjiro Kosaki
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 100 KB
- Volume
- 143A
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1552-4825
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