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DOOR (Deafness Onychdystrophy Osteodystrophy and Mental Retardation) Syndrome is a genetic disease which is inherited in an autosomal recessive fashion. DOOR syndrome is characterized by mental retardation sensorineural deafness abnormal nails and phalanges of the hands and feet and variable seizures. A similar deafness-onychodystrophy syndrome is transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait and has no mental retardation.