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Weerakkody Y, Murphy A, Morgan M, et al. Fraser syndrome. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 18 Apr 2024) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-13374
Fraser syndrome is an extremely rare congenital syndromic anomaly.
The estimated incidence is at around 0.04:10,000 live-born infants and 1:10,000 stillbirths.
The syndromic spectrum can comprise of:
It carries an autosomal recessive inheritance with an abnormal gene locus at 4p21.
History and etymology
It is named after George R Fraser, a British human geneticist who first described the features of the syndrome in 1962.
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