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A female infant with a de novo del 6q14q16.2 and five other patients with del 6q1 reported in the literature allow the delineation of a characteristic syndrome, the main features of which are: severe mental retardation, a round face with full cheeks, upslanting palpebral fissures, a short neck, umbilical hernia, malpositioned feet with syndactyly II-III, and typical dermatoglyphics with an excess of whorls and clinodactyly of the Vth finger.
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