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MILLER-DIEKER syndrome is a lethal autosomal recessive disorder in which mental retardation, failure to thrive, a characteristic facies and malformation of internal organs are associated with lissencephaly (i.e. a smooth brain which lacks the normal convolutions).
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Beighton, P., Beighton, G. (1997). DIEKER, Hans Jochen. In: The Person Behind the Syndrome. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0925-9_27
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