Sugarman syndrome
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Sugarman syndrome is the common name of autosomal recessive
oral-facial-digital syndrome type III, one of ten distinct genetic disorders that involve developmental defects to the mouth.
Alternative names for this condition include: Brachydactyly
of the hands and feet with duplication of the first toes, Sugarman brachydactyly and Brachydactyly with major proximal phalangeal shortening.
Recessive
In genetics, the term "recessive gene" refers to an allele that causes a phenotype that is only seen in a homozygous genotype and never in a heterozygous genotype. Every person has two copies of every gene on autosomal chromosomes, one from mother and one from father...
oral-facial-digital syndrome type III, one of ten distinct genetic disorders that involve developmental defects to the mouth.
Alternative names for this condition include: Brachydactyly
Brachydactyly
Brachydactyly , is a medical term which literally means "shortness of the fingers and toes" . The shortness is relative to the length of other long bones and other parts of the body. Brachydactyly is an inherited, usually dominant trait...
of the hands and feet with duplication of the first toes, Sugarman brachydactyly and Brachydactyly with major proximal phalangeal shortening.