Kabuki syndrome revisited
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Kabuki Syndrome
Disease characteristics. Kabuki syndrome (KS) is characterized by typical facial features (elongated palpebral fissures with eversion of the lateral third of the lower eyelid; arched and broad eyebrows; short columella with depressed nasal tip; large, prominent, or cupped ears), minor skeletal anomalies, persistence of fetal fingertip pads, mild to moderate intellectual disability, and postnata...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Human Genetics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1434-5161,1435-232X
DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2012.28