Neri Giovanni
Istituto di Genetica Medica, Facoltà di Medicina A. Gemelli, Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, Roma, Italy.
Am J Med Genet A. 2006 Oct 1;140(19):2007-12. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.31415.
The author gives a personal account on how he was introduced to the field of clinical genetics as a student of John Opitz in Helena, MT. That process was facilitated by the study of several malformation syndromes. Particularly instructive were the approaches to the cardio-facio-cutaneous, the Perlman, and the FG syndrome. These three conditions are briefly revisited with a critical perspective, made possible by the elapse of 20 years, since the time when the author became acquainted with them.
