Bloom's syndrome in an Iranian Jewish male

Ann Genet. 1991;34(3-4):198-200.

Abstract

Bloom's syndrome is described in an Iranian Jewish male who subsequently developed myocardial disease. This may represent the first definitely non Ashkenazi Jewish patient in the literature and the only one to develop this complication.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bloom Syndrome / complications
  • Bloom Syndrome / ethnology*
  • Bloom Syndrome / genetics
  • Cardiomyopathies / etiology
  • Fetal Growth Retardation / genetics
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Iran / ethnology
  • Jews*
  • Male
  • Sister Chromatid Exchange / genetics