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Kabuki syndrome

Background

Kabuki syndrome: Kabuki Make-Up syndrome

Kabuki syndrome is a pattern of physical and developmental problems which was first noted in children in Japan. The doctors who first wrote about this condition felt that the facial features of the affected children looked like the characters in a type of Japanese theatre called Kabuki theatre, hence they named the condition Kabuki syndrome. The syndrome has now been identified worldwide.

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Medical text written October 1999 by Professor Dian Donnai. Last updated May 2004 by Professor Dian Donnai, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, UK. Psychological and behavioural characteristics information last updated March 2004 by Dr O Udwin, Consultant Clinical Child Psychologist, West London Mental Health NHS Trust, London, UK and Dr A Kuczynski, Child Clinical Psychologist, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust, London, UK.

 

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