Medicine:Cross syndrome

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Cross syndrome
Other namesOculocerebral hypopigmentation syndrome, Cross type[1]
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Cross syndrome is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner

Cross–McKusick–Breen syndrome (also known as "Cross syndrome", "hypopigmentation and microphthalmia", and "oculocerebral-hypopigmentation syndrome") is an extremely rare disorder characterized by white skin, blond hair with yellow-gray metallic sheen, small eyes with cloudy corneas, jerky nystagmus, gingival fibromatosis and severe intellectual disability and physical retardation.[2]:867–8

It was characterized in 1967.[3]

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References

  1. RESERVED, INSERM US14-- ALL RIGHTS. "Orphanet: Oculocerebral hypopigmentation syndrome, Cross type" (in en). https://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/OC_Exp.php?lng=en&Expert=2719. 
  2. James, William; Berger, Timothy; Elston, Dirk (2005). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology. (10th ed.). Saunders. ISBN:0-7216-2921-0.
  3. "A new oculocerebral syndrome with hypopigmentation". J. Pediatr. 70 (3): 398–406. March 1967. doi:10.1016/S0022-3476(67)80137-9. PMID 4959856. 

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