Scientists have identified two genetic risk factors for the most common form of non-syndromic craniosynostosis, a birth defect in which the bony plates of an infant's skull prematurely fuse.

In this study we describe five unrelated individuals (four boys and a girl) with GLI3 mutation-proven GCPS and a typical pattern of pre- and post-axial polydactyly, all of whom had trigonocephaly ...

Seattle Children's Research Institute, together with an international team of scientists and clinicians from 22 other institutions, have identified two genetic risk factors for the most common form of ...

Craniosynostosis is a birth defect that affects one in every 2,500 live births. A newborn with the condition has a misshapen skull because one or more sutures closed too soon. My son was born with ...

Craniosynostosis is a rare condition in which a baby develops or is born with an unusually shaped skull. It happens when one or more of the natural spaces in the infant’s skull join together too early ...

When little Oscar Williams was just three months old he was diagnosed with a very rare condition which caused the bones in his skull to prematurely fuse together before his brain was fully formed. If ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — David and Felicia Kazmierczak and their twin three-year-old sons, Logan and Dante, of North Tonawanda, joined News 4 at 7 on Monday to discuss the twins’ recent surgery, with ...