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Holt-Oram syndrome and multiple ventricular septal defects: an association suggesting a possible genetic marker?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Rolf G. Bennhagen
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Samuel Menahem*
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
*
Professor S Menahem, Department of Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital. Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria. 3052, Australia. Tel: 61-3-9345 5715 Fax: 61-3-9345 6001.

Abstract

A family is described where the father has the many skeletal, but none of the cardiac abnormalities associated with the Holt-Oram syndrome. His two daughters have similar skeletal anomalies, but with identical cardiac lesions, as does another patient, raising the possibility of an associated genetic marker.

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Brief Reports
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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