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Aarskog syndrome is an inherited disease characterized by short stature, facial abnormalities, musculoskeletal, and genital anomalies. Intelligence is usually normal.
Aarskog syndrome is an x-linked recessive genetic disorder. This disorder affects mainly males, although females may have a milder manifestation of some of the features. It is caused by mutations in a gene called FGDY1 found on the X chromosome, specifically Xp11.21.
It is also known as, Aarskog-Scott syndrome (ASS), Greig syndrome, facial-digital-genital syndrome, facio-digito-genital syndrome, and shawl scrotum syndrome.
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