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• maternal diabetes
Large for gestational age • overgrowth syndrome, such as Beckwith-Wiedemann
• Extreme prematurity => intellectual disabilities
Duration of gestation • Post maturity => ~ with chromosome anomalies and anencephaly
Exposure to teratogens • Medications, drugs, cigarette smoking, alcohol use, radiation, chemicals
Cranium size
and
appearance
Abdel-Hamid, M.S. & Issa, Mahmoud & Otaify, Ghada & Abdel-Ghafar, S.F. & Elbendary, H.M. & Zaki,
Maha. (2017). PGAP3-related hyperphosphatasia with mental retardation syndrome: Report of 10 new
patients and a homozygous founder mutation. Clinical genetics. 93. 10.1111/cge.13033.
Neck Chest Spine Abdomen
Webbed Shape Thoracolumbar
• Turner syndrome • Pectus carinatum scoliosis Hepatomegaly
• Noonan syndrome • Pectus excavatum • Marfan syndrome with or without
• Skeletal dysplasia splenomegaly
Brachydactyly Clubfoot
Chromosome should be ordered for children with multiple congenital
analysis anomalies, the involvement of one major organ system
and the presence of multiple dysmorphic features, or the
presence of mental retardation