Waardenburg syndrome

Introduction: Waardenburg syndrome

Description of Waardenburg syndrome

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Waardenburg syndrome: rare, autosomal dominant disease with variable penetrance and several known clinical subtypes; characteristics may include depigmentation of the hair and skin, congenital deafness, heterochromia iridis, medial eyebrow hyperplasia, hypertrophy of the nasal root, and especially dystopia canthorum; the underlying cause may be defective development of the neural crest (neurocristopathy); may be closely related to piebaldism; Klein-Waardenburg Syndrome refers to a disorder that also includes upper limb abnormalities.
Source: CRISP

Waardenburg syndrome: Related Topics

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• Canthi
• Dystopia
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Waardenburg syndrome: Rare Disease

Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Waardenburg syndrome is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Waardenburg syndrome, or a subtype of Waardenburg syndrome, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Waardenburg syndrome as a Disease

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Waardenburg syndrome: Related Diseases

Waardenburg syndrome: Waardenburg syndrome is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

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Waardenburg syndrome: Article Excerpts

The disease was named for Petrus Johannes Waardenburg, a Dutch ophthalmologist (1886-1979) who was the first to notice that people...(Source: Genes and Disease by the National Center for Biotechnology)

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Terms Similar to Waardenburg syndrome:

• Mende Syndrome
• Ptosis-Epicanthus Syndrome
• Van der Hoeve Halbertsma Waardenburg Gualdi Syndrome

Source - NIH

• van der Hoeve Halbertsona Waardenburg syndrome
• Waardenburg anophthalmia syndrome

Source - CRISP

Broader terms for Waardenburg syndrome

• genetic disorder
• syndrome

Source - CRISP

The term Waardenburg syndrome can be used for:

• Klein syndrome
• Klein Waardenburg syndrome

Source: CRISP

Other terms that may be related to Waardenburg syndrome:

• autosomal dominant trait

Source: CRISP

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