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anencephaly (DOID:0060668)
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Alt IDs: OMIM:206500, ICD10CM:Q00.0, MESH:D000757, ORDO:1048
Definition: A congenital nervous system abnormality characterized by failure of the anterior neuropore to close resulting in partial or complete absence of the cranial vault accompanied by absence of overlying tissues, including the brain and cerebral hemispheres, skull and scalp.

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Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Models of Human Cancer database (MMHCdb) (formerly Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB)), Gene Ontology (GO)
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last database update
03/19/2024
MGI 6.23
The Jackson Laboratory