Six patients with oral-facial-digital syndrome IV: the case for heterogeneity

Am J Med Genet. 1997 Mar 31;69(3):250-60.

Abstract

The oral-facial-digital syndromes (OFDS) have in common minor facial and oral anomalies (including tongue lobulation and/ or hamartomas, accessory frenula, and alveolar anomalies) and variable digital defects such as polydactyly. The classification based on the presence of additional findings [Toriello, 1988, 1993] is not perfect, as many reported examples of a particular OFDS have some other condition. Here we describe six children, all diagnosed as having OFDS IV (OFDS with tibial defects), whose manifestations illustrate the apparent genetic heterogeneity.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Multiple / pathology*
  • Face / abnormalities*
  • Female
  • Fingers / abnormalities*
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Male
  • Mouth Abnormalities / pathology*
  • Syndrome
  • Toes / abnormalities*