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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2014
A family is described in which three siblings were affected by Robin's syndrome (micrognathia and glossoptosis with cleft palate) in its severe form. Two children died very early in life, the third is surviving after surgical management and appropriate nursing care. The children were born from a consanguineous marriage (their parents were first cousins). This pedigree is highly suggestive of an autosomal recessive kind of inheritance. Malformations of the extremities (hands and/or feet) were present in the probands as well as in two relatives of the paternal line.