Abdallat–Davis–Farrage syndrome

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| name = Abdallat Davis Farrage syndrome

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| caption = Abdallat–Davis–Farrage syndrome has an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance.|

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| symptoms =Albinism, irregular decreased skin pigmentation, excessive freckling, insensitivity to pain, peripheral neuropathy, and paraparesis/quadraparesis.

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| named after = Adnan Abdallat

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Abdallat–Davis–Farrage syndrome is a form of phakomatosis, a disease of the central nervous system accompanied by skin abnormalities. It is characterized by abnormal skin pigmentation.

The condition is named after the team of medical professionals who first wrote it up, describing the appearance of the syndrome in a family from Jordan. It was characterized in 1980 by Adnan Abdallat, a Jordanian doctor.{{Cite journal |last=Abdallat |first=A. |last2=Davis |first2=S. M. |last3=Farrage |first3=J. |last4=McDonald |first4=W. I. |author-link4=W. Ian McDonald |year=1980 |title=Disordered pigmentation, spastic paraparesis and peripheral neuropathy in three siblings: A new neurocutaneous syndrome |journal=Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry |volume=43 |issue=11 |pages=962–966 |doi=10.1136/jnnp.43.11.962 |pmc=490745 |pmid=7441281}}