Abstract
Agnathia is an extremely rare lethal neurocristopathy. The disorder has also been termed agnathia-holoprosencephaly spectrum, agnathia-otocephaly complex, agnathia-astomia-synotia, or cyclopia-otocephaly association. The incidence is estimated to be 1 in 70,000 infants (Schiffer et al. 2002).
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Chen, H. (2015). Agnathia. In: Atlas of Genetic Diagnosis and Counseling. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6430-3_5-2
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