Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Holt-Oram Syndrome

["Vern Green" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> I promised to upload some pictures tonight, here they are on Picasa:
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/hayvern/JeremySHands

As you point out, it is *not* easy to get the clear pictures you might
want of an infant's hands. :-)

That said, I think i do see what you are getting at here, and Jeremy's
left hand does not look the same as his right. That said, Google can
point you towards images of this that are far more extreme looking (in
older kids and adullts). One typical thing you might also "see" here
is his thumb having three segments, but that would be tricky to see in
an infant hand without an X-ray.

 

The doc wants to x-ray his hands and arms the next time he comes in. I would normally object to having X-rays so soon in life, but I think I will go ahead with it this time. If I can get images I will post them as well. It will be a couple more weeks.

 

> You might also notice another genetic trait. This one he and I clearly
> share, as does my older son, my sister, and I think my mother. We all had
> the crooked little finger. I do not think that trait is tied in anyway to
> what we are seeing here with Holt-Oram, but maybe I am wrong.

It's probably different. Look here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?id=114200

 

I don't know what all that meant, but I know that it is present in at least two generations of my family, probably three as well, just looked through some old pictures of my dad's hands and apparently he had the crooked finger issue as well. My mother did not.

 

 

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