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Adams-Oliver Syndrome

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In 1945, Adams and Oliver described congenital transverse limb defects associated with aplasia cutis congenita in a three-generation kindred with typical autosomal dominant inheritance and intrafamilial variable expressivity.

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Chen, H. (2017). Adams-Oliver Syndrome. In: Atlas of Genetic Diagnosis and Counseling. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2401-1_4

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