Widow's Peak

A pointed frontal hairline may be inherited as a dominant. For picture see page 359 of Winchester (1958). Smith and Cohen (1973) pointed out an association between ocular hypertelorism and widow's peak.

Widow's peak occurs also in Aarskog syndrome (305400; Berman et al., 1974) and in the simulating faciodigitogenital syndrome (227330). It has also been described in Opitz-Frias syndrome (145410), in the Waardenburg syndrome (193500), in frontonasal dysplasia (136760), and in craniofrontonasal dysplasia (304110). The occurrence of widow's peak in some of these disorders may be developmentally related to the occurrence of hypertelorism, as was pointed out by Smith and Cohen (1973).