Lack of resemblance between Myhre syndrome and other "segmental progeroid" syndromes warrants restraint in applying this classification

Affiliations

• ¹ Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, USA. lin.angela@mgh.harvard.edu.
• ² Department of Translational Medicine, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy.
• ³ Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Pozzuoli, Italy.
• ⁴ Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
• ⁵ Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
• ⁶ Clinical Genetics, Paris Centre University, INSERM UMR 1163, Imagine Institute, Hôpital Necker enfants, Malades, Paris, France.
• ⁷ Department of Medical Genetics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
• ⁸ Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, England.
• ⁹ Division of Evolution and Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicines and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
• ¹⁰ Pediatric Pulmonary, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹¹ Cardiovascular Genetics Program, Division of Cardiology and Pediatric Cardiology, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹² Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.