Familial occurrence of omphalocele suggesting sex-linked inheritance.
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- 1 February 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 54 (2) , 142-143
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.54.2.142
Abstract
A family is described in which 4 males in two generations had omphalocele. There was no case of omphalocele in any of the women. It is suggested that the mode of inheritance could be a sex-linked recessive trait.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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