Brachydactyly is a congenital condition, meaning you're born with it. When you have it, your fingers and toes are much shorter than average compared to the size of your body. There are many types ...

A family showing brachydactyly associated with hypertension is reported. The number and location of the involved bones are quite different from the other cases with brachydactyly reported in the ...

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We are studying a Turkish family with autosomal-dominant hypertension and brachydactyly; affected persons die of stroke before 50 years of age. With interphase fluorescence in situ hybridization, w ...

BACKGROUND A 60 member Turkish kindred with autosomal dominant hypertension, which cosegregates completely with brachydactyly and short stature, was studied. Affected people have severe hypertension ...

Introduction The clinical phenotype of the chromosome 2q31 deletion syndrome consists of limb anomalies ranging from monodactylous ectrodactyly, brachydactyly and syndactyly to camptodactyly.

The 1980s initiated a decade of genome cartography. Early maps were based on restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) and, in 1987, the first genome-wide map was published. 12 These early ...

Fanconi anemia is a rare inherited condition that can affect the thumbs. Some people with the condition may be born with extra, missing, or misshapen thumbs. While Fanconi anemia does not affect ...