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Mowat-Wilson syndrome

Background

Mowat-Wilson syndrome: Hirschsprung disease-Microcephaly-Mental Retardation syndrome

Mowat-Wilson syndrome is a rare disorder which was first described in detail by Dr D R Mowat and Dr M J Wilson in 1998. Although individuals with the main characteristics of Hirschsprung disease, learning disability and typical facial features, had been described by a number of doctors in the preceding twenty years, it was suggested in 2002 that the syndrome be called Mowat-Wilson syndrome. The syndrome affects both males and females and by 2004, forty-seven cases of the syndrome had been reported in medical literature.

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Medical text written November 2004 by Contact a Family. Approved November 2004 by Dr J Clayton-Smith, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, UK.

 

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