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MARFAN'S SYNDROME IN NORTHERN IRELAND: AN ACCOUNT OF THIRTEEN FAMILIES
Author(s) -
LYNAS MARGARET A.
Publication year - 1958
Publication title -
annals of human genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.537
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1469-1809
pISSN - 0003-4800
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-1809.1958.tb01423.x
Subject(s) - marfan syndrome , northern ireland , etiology , pediatrics , medicine , demography , surgery , psychiatry , ethnology , history , sociology
Summary All the subjects in Northern Ireland who have been ascertained to suffer from Marian's syndrome or any incomplete form of this syndrome have been studied. A total of thirty‐one subjects in several generations have been ascertained and twenty‐six of these were living at the time of the survey. Twenty only are resident in Northern Ireland. Strict criteria of acceptance of the disorder have been postulated and it is probable therefore that mild (sporadic cases would be excluded even had they been notified. The literature on the clinical and hereditary aspects of Marfan's syndrome and the aetiology have been disoussed.