title: The Coffin-Lowry syndrome. A study of two new index patients and their families.
abstract: Two adult, mentally retarded males with the typical features of the Coffin-Lowry syndrome are reported. Further family investigation led to the same diagnosis in a 2.5-year-old male cousin, and to the identification of five female carriers, with variable clinical expression of this X-linked inherited mental retardation syndrome.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001848:Bone Diseases, Developmental / Q000235:genetics*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers / Q000002:abnormalities; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D006579:Heterozygote; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010375:Pedigree; D014960:X Chromosome