title: Familial congenital funnel chest.
abstract: We observed three Chinese families in which congenital isolated funnel chest was segregating. This report confirms that funnel chest (pectus excavatum) can be transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait.
mesh_terms: D005660:Funnel Chest / Q000235:genetics*; D005799:Genes, Dominant; D006801:Humans; D010375:Pedigree