Corpus Callosum in Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome

Abstract

Investigators at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; and the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, studied the relation between the size of the corpus callosum (CC), level of serum 7-dehydrocholesterol (7DHC), and severity of developmental delay in 36 subjects with Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS), compared to 36 normal controls.

Keywords

• corpus callosum
• smith-lemli-opitz syndrome
• 7-dehydrocholesterol