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Otopalatodigital syndrome spectrum disorder
Disease definition
Otopalatodigital syndrome spectrum disorder is a primary bone dysplasia and encompasses a group of congenital anomalies that are characterized by skeletal dysplasia of varying clinical severity and an X linked dominant pattern of inheritance. This group includes otopalatodigital syndrome type 1 and 2 (OPD1, OPD2) which are characterized in affected males by cleft palate, conductive hearing loss, craniofacial abnormalities and skeletal dysplasia; Melnick-Needles syndrome (MNS) which displays skeletal deformities in females and embryonic or perinatal lethality in most males; frontometaphyseal dysplasia (FMD); and terminal osseous dysplasia - pigmentary defects.
ORPHA:364541
Classification level: Group of disorders- Synonym(s):
- OPD spectrum disorder
- OPSD
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- OMIM: -
- UMLS: C2748918
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A summary on this disease is available in Español (2015) Italiano (2015) Nederlands (2015)
Detailed information
Disease review articles
- Clinical genetics review
- English (2019) - GeneReviews


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