RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Familial occurrence of omphalocele suggesting sex-linked inheritance.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 142
OP 143
DO 10.1136/adc.54.2.142
VO 54
IS 2
A1 S Havalad
A1 H Noblett
A1 B D Speidel
YR 1979
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/54/2/142.abstract
AB A family is described in which 4 males in two generations had omphalocele. There was no case of omphalocele in any of the women. It is suggested that the mode of inheritance could be a sex-linked recessive trait.