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Hootnick-Holmes syndrome
Associated persons:
Lewis B. Holmes
David Randall Hootnick
Description:
A fasmilial syndrome characterised by craniofacial anomalies, hand and foot abnormalities, and nervous system disorders. Inheritance is autosomal dominant.
The term Hootnick-Holmes has also been used as a synonym for Greig's syndrome I, or polysyndactyly cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome. These are two separate entities. See under David Middleton Greig, Scottish physician, 1864-1936.
Bibliography:
- D. Hootnick, L. B. Holmes:
Familial polysyndactyly and craniofacial anomalies.
Clinical Genetics, Copenhagen, 1972, 3: 128-134.
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