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Robert Brian Lowry
British medical geneticist in Canada, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, July 30, 1932.
Associated eponyms:
Coffin-Lowry syndrome
A familial syndrome characterised by dwarfism and severe mental retardation, muscle weakness, unusual prominence of the breastbone, lax ligamenta, vertebral anomalies, hypotonia, and peculiar facies and digits.
Lowry's syndrome
A disorder marked by extreme craniosynostosis involving both coronal and sagittal sutures, and bilateral fibular aplasia.
Lowry-Wood syndrome
A syndrome of microcephaly, mental retardation, dwarfism, bilateral cataracts and multiple epiphyseal dysplasia.
Biography:
Robert Brian Lowry studied medicine at Queen's University, Belfast. He moved to Canada and became chief resident at the Vancouver General Hospital. From 1965 he was a research fellow in medical genetics at the University of British Columbia's department of pediatrics. He became a professor at this university, and in 1977 he moved to the position of professor and head of the division of medical genetics in the department of pediatrics, University of Calgary, Alberta.
We thank Dr. Günter Krämer, Zurich, Switzerland, for information submitted.
Bibliography:
- Daniel Bergsma and Robert Brian Lowry:
Natural history of specific birth defects (Birth defects original article series).
A. R. Liss, 1977. 257 pages.
- Daniel Bergsma and Robert Brian Lowry:
New syndromes (Birth defects original article series). A. R. Liss, 1977. 268 pages.
- Daniel Bergsma and Robert Brian Lowry:
Embryology and pathogenesis and prenatal diagnosis (Birth defects original article series). A. R. Liss, 1977. 298 pages.
- Daniel Bergsma and Robert Brian Lowry:
Numerical taxonomy of birth defects and polygenic disorders.
New York, A. R. Liss, 1977.
- Peter Beighton & Gretha Beighton:
B. Lowry. In:
The Man Behind the Syndrome.
Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 1986. Page 218.
The Person Behind the Syndrome.
The Parthenon Publishing Group, London, 1997.
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