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Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome

Laurence-Biedl syndrome

(1) Bardet-Biedl syndrome (see there), OMIM:209900. 
(2) Laurence-Moon syndrome (see there), OMIM:245600. 

Until recently, it was common practice to consolidate these two conditions together as the Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome.
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Electroretinography and diagnosis of the Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome in childhood.
I stopped eating all the wrong stuff and started exercising to lose extra weight." Anneba, of Erdington, Birminghan, suffered from Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome.
It wasn't until four years later that his parents would discover Daniel was suffering from a rare genetic condition called Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (LMBBS), which would leave him overweight and nearly blind.
INTRODUCTION: Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome (LMBBS) is a rare, genetically heterogeneous, autosomal recessive disorder characterized by early onset retinitis pigmentosa, post axial polydactyly, central obesity, mental retardation, hypogonadism and kidney structural abnormalities or functional impairment.
CASE REPORT: Here is a joint family of 11 members, which had 7 affected members with various sub syndromes of Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl Syndrome; all the affected members had supernumerary teeth which was a rare feature in this variant of Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl Syndrome.
Among these, 4 children (2.4%) had unknown syndrome, 5(3%) had Turner's syndrome, 2 children (1.2%) Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome and 2(1.2%) Noonan syndrome.
Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl Syndrome Network 18 Strawberry Hill Windsor, CT 06095 (203) 688-7880 1,4
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