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Gorlin syndrome
Name sometimes used for the LEOPARD syndrome which Dr. Robert J. Gorlin and colleagues recognized and reported in the medical literature in 1969. A oral pathologist and clinical geneticist at the University of Minnesota, Bob Gorlin (1923-)…
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