title: Familial occurrence of omphalocele suggesting sex-linked inheritance.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006554:Hernia, Umbilical / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010375:Pedigree; D012729:Sex Chromosome Aberrations