Failure of siblings to thrive beyond 5 years of age

We describe a family in which parents had consanguinity, being children of real sisters. They had given birth to five children. In their family, children remained healthy from birth to pre-school age and then started having symptoms around the age of 5 years and two of them succumbed to this illness...

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Main Authors: Jain, Himanshu, Saxena, Vivek, Jindal, Sushil, Bansal, Shaifali
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830313/
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spelling pubmed-38303132013-11-18 Failure of siblings to thrive beyond 5 years of age Jain, Himanshu Saxena, Vivek Jindal, Sushil Bansal, Shaifali Brief Communication We describe a family in which parents had consanguinity, being children of real sisters. They had given birth to five children. In their family, children remained healthy from birth to pre-school age and then started having symptoms around the age of 5 years and two of them succumbed to this illness. Polyglandular autoimmune syndrome Type-1 is a rare sporadic autosomal recessive disease. It is characterized by the existence of two or more endocrinal disorders. Patients may require lifelong hormone replacement therapy for survival. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3830313/ /pubmed/24251167 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.119580 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Jain, Himanshu
Saxena, Vivek
Jindal, Sushil
Bansal, Shaifali
spellingShingle Jain, Himanshu
Saxena, Vivek
Jindal, Sushil
Bansal, Shaifali
Failure of siblings to thrive beyond 5 years of age
author_facet Jain, Himanshu
Saxena, Vivek
Jindal, Sushil
Bansal, Shaifali
author_sort Jain, Himanshu
title Failure of siblings to thrive beyond 5 years of age
title_short Failure of siblings to thrive beyond 5 years of age
title_full Failure of siblings to thrive beyond 5 years of age
title_fullStr Failure of siblings to thrive beyond 5 years of age
title_full_unstemmed Failure of siblings to thrive beyond 5 years of age
title_sort failure of siblings to thrive beyond 5 years of age
description We describe a family in which parents had consanguinity, being children of real sisters. They had given birth to five children. In their family, children remained healthy from birth to pre-school age and then started having symptoms around the age of 5 years and two of them succumbed to this illness. Polyglandular autoimmune syndrome Type-1 is a rare sporadic autosomal recessive disease. It is characterized by the existence of two or more endocrinal disorders. Patients may require lifelong hormone replacement therapy for survival.
publisher Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd
publishDate 2013
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830313/
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