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Renata Laxova | |
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| Born | 15 July 1931 Brno, Czechoslovakia |
| Died | 30 November 2020 (aged 89) Tucson, Arizona, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Brno |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Genetics |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Renata Laxova (July 15, 1931 – November 30, 2020) was a Czech American pediatric geneticist and a professor of genetics at the Departments of Pediatrics and Medical Genetics, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison.[1] She was the discoverer of the Neu-Laxová syndrome, a rare congenital abnormality involving multiple organs, with autosomal recessive inheritance.[2][3]
- ^ "Renata Laxova, 89". Wisconsin State Journal obituary. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ [Neu RL, Kajii T, Gardner LI, et al.: A lethal syndrome of microcephaly with multiple congenital anomalies in three siblings. Pediatrics 1971, 47:610-612] PMID 5547878
- ^ Aslan, Halil; Gul, Ahmet; Polat, Ibrahim; Mutaf, Cihan; Agar, Mehmet; Ceylan, Yavuz (February 19, 2002). "BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | Abstract | Prenatal diagnosis of Neu-Laxova syndrome: a case report". BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2 (1). Biomedcentral.com: 1. doi:10.1186/1471-2393-2-1. PMC 88995. PMID 11895570.