A short history of the initial discovery of the Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome.

Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet

Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA.

Published: November 2008

Deletion of the short arm of chromosome 4 (4p-) was first described in 1961 [Hirschhorn and Cooper, 1961], and the second case of 4p- was published in 1965 [Hirschhorn et al., 1965]. This short history describes the original case and the sequence of events leading to the publications.

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