Wolf-Hirschorn syndrome: A syndrome characterised by the partial deletion of the short arm of chromosome 4. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Wolf-Hirschorn syndrome is available below.
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Wolf-Hirschorn syndrome is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Wolf-Hirschorn syndrome, or a subtype of Wolf-Hirschorn syndrome,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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