Waardenburg syndrome
Waardenburg syndrome (WS) is an inherited disorder that causes varying degrees of hearing loss and color changes in the skin, hair, and eyes. People with WS typically have pale white skin.
Waardenburg Syndrome, Types 1 and 3
Waardenburg syndrome is named after a Dutch ophthalmologist, Petrus Johannes Waardenburg who first described it in 1951. It has since been subdivided into several types all of which have some features in common.
Waardenburg syndrome
Alternate Names : Klein-Waardenburg syndrome, Waardenburg-Shah syndrome
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Waardenburg syndrome or Waardenburg-Klein syndrome is a rare genetic disorder most often characterized by varying degrees of deafness, minor defects in structures arising from the neural crest, and pigmentation anomalies.
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A genetic disorder that causes deafness, white forelock ...
What is Waardenburg syndrome?
Waardenburg syndrome is a group of genetic conditions that can cause hearing loss and changes in coloring (pigmentation) of the hair, skin, and eyes.
Waardenburg syndrome (WS) is an inherited disorder often characterized by varying degrees of hearing loss and changes in skin and hair pigmentation.
Waardenburg syndrome is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait, meaning only one parent has to pass on the gene for a child to be affected.
There are four main types of Waardenburg syndrome.
The most common types are Type I and Type II.
Waardenburg's syndrome may be closely related to piebaldism. Klein-waardenburg syndrome refers to a disorder that also includes upper limb abnormalities.
Inheritance: audosomal dominant.
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Hannah inherited Waardenburg syndrome, a condition that can cause mostly benign symptoms, like a white streak of hair, differently colored eyes or webbed toes. But Hannah suffered the most serious symptom—hearing loss.
For example, it may be associated with a white forelock, and be caused by a genetic disease called Waardenburg syndrome. In fact, more than half of congenital hearing loss is inherited.
There are a number of disorders in which Hirschsprung disease is a feature. They include Down syndrome), Waardenburg syndrome, cartilage-hair hypoplasia, ...
"Dystopia canthorum" is associated with Waardenburg syndrome.
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LVA can result from abnormal or delayed development of the inner ear (non-syndromal) or may be associated with syndromes such as Pendred syndrome (PS), brancio-oto-renal syndrome, CHARGE syndrome, or Waardenburg syndrome (Pryor et. al, 2005).
 See also: Deafness, Symptom, Hearing Loss, Surgery, Sclerosis
  
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