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Meckel syndrome

Meckel-Gruber syndrome is a rare lethal malformation syndrome affecting several organs. The most typical malformations are occipital encephalocele, large polycystic kidneys, and polydactyly.

Systematic

Ciliopathy
Acrocallosal syndrome
COACH syndrome
Cranioectodermal dysplasia
Joubert syndrome
Leber congenital amaurosis
Left-right axis malformations
Meckel syndrome
Meckel syndrome 02
TMEM216
Meckel syndrome 03
TMEM67
Meckel syndrome 05
RPGRIP1L
Meckel syndrome 06
CC2D2A
Meckel syndrome 08
TCTN2
Meckel syndrome 09
B9D1
Meckel syndrome 10
B9D2
Meckel syndrome 11
TMEM231
Meckel syndrome 13
TMEM107
Mental retardation, truncal obesity, retinal dystrophy and micropenis
Nephronophthisis
Orofaciodigital syndrome
Primary ciliary dyskinesia 3 with or without situs inversus
Retinitis pigmentosa
Senior-Loken syndrome
Short-rib thoracic dysplasia with or without polydactyly
Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome

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None (1984) Gross anatomical studies of a newborn infant with the Meckel syndrome.

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Castilla EE et al. (1998) Associated anomalies in individuals with polydactyly.

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Paavola P et al. (1999) High-resolution physical and genetic mapping of the critical region for Meckel syndrome and Mulibrey Nanism on chromosome 17q22-q23.

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Karmous-Benailly H et al. (2005) Antenatal presentation of Bardet-Biedl syndrome may mimic Meckel syndrome.

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Kyttälä M et al. (2006) MKS1, encoding a component of the flagellar apparatus basal body proteome, is mutated in Meckel syndrome.

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Auber B et al. (2007) A disease causing deletion of 29 base pairs in intron 15 in the MKS1 gene is highly associated with the campomelic variant of the Meckel-Gruber syndrome.

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Wikipedia article

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