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https://read.qxmd.com/read/37589029/diagnostic-gene-panel-testing-in-non-syndromic-patients-with-cleft-lip-alveolus-and-or-palate-in-the-netherlands
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lisca Florence Wurfbain, Inge Lucia Cox, Maria Francisca van Dooren, Augusta Maria Antonia Lachmeijer, Virginie Johanna Maria Verhoeven, Johanna Maria van Hagen, Malou Heijligers, Jolien Sietske Klein Wassink-Ruiter, Saskia Koene, Saskia Mariska Maas, Hermine Elisabeth Veenstra-Knol, Johannes Kristian Ploos van Amstel, Maarten Pieter Gerrit Massink, Aebele Barber Mink van der Molen, Marie-José Henriette van den Boogaard
OBJECTIVES: Clefts of the lip, alveolus and/or palate (CLA/P) are the most common craniofacial congenital malformations in humans. These oral clefts can be divided into non-syndromic (isolated) and syndromic forms. Many cleft-related syndromes are clinically variable and genetically heterogeneous, making it challenging to distinguish syndromic from non-syndromic cases. Recognition of syndromic/genetic causes is important for personalized tailored care, identification of (unrecognized) comorbidities, and accurate genetic counseling...
August 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37589028/co-occurrence-of-pallister-killian-syndrome-and-burkitt-lymphoma-in-a-patient-with-near-normal-neurocognitive-development
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kosuke Izumi, Rebecca D Ganetzky, Gerald B W Wertheim, Cara M Skraban, Emma C Bedoukian, Alisha Wilkens, Christopher Fincher, Nina H Thomas, Jill P Ginsberg, Susan R Rheingold, Laura K Conlin, Matthew A Deardorff
BACKGROUND: Pallister-Killian syndrome (PKS) is typically recognized by its features that include developmental delay, seizures, sparse temporal hair, and facial dysmorphisms. PKS is most frequently caused by mosaic supernumerary isochromosome 12p. CASE PRESENTATION: Here, we report a patient with PKS who was subsequently diagnosed with Burkitt lymphoma. Following the successful treatment of lymphoma, this patient demonstrated very mild intellectual disability despite the diagnosis of PKS, which is usually associated with severe developmental delay...
August 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37484705/shifting-the-focus-of-molecular-syndromology-from-individual-diagnoses-to-outcome-analyses
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August 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37323203/mutated-transcripts-of-zeb2-do-not-undergo-nonsense-mediated-decay-in-mowat-wilson-syndrome
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Naz Güleray Lafcı, Beren Karaosmanoglu, Ekim Z Taskiran, Pelin Ozlem Simsek-Kiper, Gülen Eda Utine
INTRODUCTION: Mowat-Wilson syndrome (MWS) is an autosomal-dominant complex developmental disorder characterized by distinctive facial appearance, intellectual disability, epilepsy, and various clinically heterogeneous abnormalities reminiscent of neurocristopathies. MWS is caused by haploinsufficiency of ZEB2 due to heterozygous point mutations and copy number variations. CASE PRESENTATION: We report on two unrelated affected individuals with novel ZEB2 indel mutations, molecularly confirming the diagnosis of MWS...
June 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37323202/differential-diagnosis-of-pulmonary-veno-occlusive-disease-and-or-pulmonary-capillary-hemangiomatosis-after-identification-of-two-novel-eif2ak4-variants-by-whole-exome-sequencing
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Jong Eun Park, Sung-A Chang, Shin Yi Jang, Kyung Soo Lee, Duk-Kyung Kim, Chang-Seok Ki
BACKGROUND: Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) and/or pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis (PCH) are rare causes of pulmonary hypertension. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and PVOD/PCH are clinically similar, but there is a risk of drug-induced pulmonary edema when PCH patients receive the PAH therapy. Therefore, early diagnosis of PVOD/PCH is important. OBJECTIVES: We report the first case in Korea of PVOD/PCH in a patient carrying compound heterozygous pathogenic variants in the EIF2AK4 gene...
June 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37323201/clinical-and-genetic-characteristics-of-patients-with-unexplained-intellectual-disability-developmental-delay-without-epilepsy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hamide Betul Gerik-Celebi, Hilal Aydin, Hilmi Bolat, Gul Unsel-Bolat
INTRODUCTION: Global developmental delay (DD), intellectual disability (ID), and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are mainly evaluated under the neurodevelopmental disorder framework. In this study, we aimed to determine the genetic diagnosis yield using step-by-step genetic analysis in 38 patients with unexplained ID/DD and/or ASD. METHODS: In 38 cases (27 male, 11 female) with unexplained ID/DD and/or ASD, chromosomal microarray (CMA) analysis, clinical exome sequencing (CES), and whole-exome sequencing (WES) analysis were applied, respectively...
June 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37323200/identification-of-a-novel-iqce-large-deletion-through-copy-number-variant-analysis-from-whole-exome-sequencing-data-of-a-patient-with-postaxial-polydactyly-type-a7
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Faidon-Nikolaos Tilemis, Nikolaos M Marinakis, Konstantina Kosma, Florentia Fostira, Joanne Traeger-Synodinos
INTRODUCTION: Non-syndromic polydactyly has been associated with pathogenic variants in 11 genes until today, including IQCE gene. More precisely, loss-of-function of IQCE is associated with the autosomal recessive disorder postaxial polydactyly type A7 (PAPA7, MIM #617642). CASE PRESENTATION: A 3-year-old female patient was referred to our genetics department with postaxial polydactyly, syndactyly, brachydactyly, and hypoplastic teeth. Through whole-exome sequencing (WES), a pathogenic IQCE variant was identified (c...
June 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37323199/a-genetics-study-in-the-foreskin-of-boys-with-hypospadias
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Irem Inanc, Dincer Avlan, Damla Eker, Hakan Gurkan
INTRODUCTION: Hypospadias is a malformation of the genitourinary system in males, characterized by the placement of the urethral opening in the ventral surface of the penis. Although controversies continue about etiology, endocrine disrupting chemicals that disrupt normal endocrine signaling at the receptor or signal transduction level are thought to play an essential role in etiology. This study aimed to investigate the receptor gene expressions of the sex hormones and FGFR2, HOXA13 , and TGFB1 , which are considered to play an essential role in developing hypospadias...
June 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37323198/sequence-variants-in-megf8-and-gja1-underlying-syndactyly
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Muhammad Bilal, Tobias B Haack, Rebecca Buchert, Susana Peralta, Najum Uddin, Raja Hussain Ali, Khurram Liaqat, Wasim Ahmad
INTRODUCTION: Syndactyly is a common congenital limb malformation. It occurs due to embryological failure of digit separation during limb development. Syndactyly often runs in families with an incidence of about one out of every 2,500-3,000 live births. METHODS: Here, we have reported two families presenting features of severe forms of syndactyly. The disorder segregated in autosomal recessive in one and in autosomal dominant manner in the second family. Search for the causative variants was carried out using whole-exome sequencing in family A and candidate gene sequencing in family B...
June 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37323197/identification-of-a-novel-nonsense-variant-in-the-dll3-gene-underlying-spondylocostal-dysostosis-in-a-consanguineous-pakistani-family
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Feroz Khan, Abida Arshad, Asmat Ullah, Ellen Steenackers, Geert Mortier, Wasim Ahmad, Muhammad Arshad, Sarmir Khan, Amir Hayat, Ikram Khan, Muhammad Asim Khan, Wim Van Hul
INTRODUCTION: Spondylocostal dysostosis (SCD) is characterized by multiple vertebral abnormalities associated with abnormalities of the ribs. Five genes causative for the disease have been identified. These include DLL3 (OMIM *602768), MESP2 (OMIM #608681), LFNG (OMIM #609813), TBX6 (OMIM *602427), and HES7 (OMIM *608059). METHODS: In the current study, we investigated a Pakistani consanguineous family segregating spondylocostal dysotosis. Whole-exome sequencing (WES) followed by Sanger sequencing was performed using DNA of affected and unaffected individuals to identify pathogenic variant(s)...
June 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37323196/report-on-a-case-with-moreno-nishimura-schmidt-overgrowth-syndrome-a-clinically-delineated-disease-yet-of-an-unknown-origin
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Cybel Mehawej, Eliane Chouery, Ghada Al Hage Chehade, Yosra Bejaoui, Daniel Mahfoud, Maya Gerges, Valérie Delague, Nady El Hajj, Andre Megarbane
INTRODUCTION: Overgrowth syndromes are a heterogeneous group of genetic disorders characterized by excessive growth, often accompanied by additional clinical features, such as facial dysmorphism, hormonal imbalances, cognitive impairment, and increased risk for neoplasia. Moreno-Nishimura-Schmidt (M-N-S) overgrowth syndrome is a very rare overgrowth syndrome characterized by severe pre- and postnatal overgrowth, dysmorphic facial features, kyphoscoliosis, large hands and feet, inguinal hernia, and distinctive skeletal features...
June 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37323195/the-new-youngest-case-of-grange-syndrome-with-a-novel-biallelic-pathogenic-variant-in-yy1ap1
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Taner Karakaya, Ayberk Turkyilmaz, Deniz Eris, Mehtap Kaya, Kupra Oksuz, Meltem Aygul Eryigit, Gizem Gönen
INTRODUCTION: Grange syndrome (OMIM 602531) is characterized by a constellation of symptoms of hypertension, stenosis, or occlusion of different arteries (including the cerebral, renal, abdominal, and coronary vessels) with a variable occurrence of brachysyndactyly, bone fragility, and congenital heart defects. Learning disabilities were also reported in some cases. Biallelic pathogenic variants in YY1AP1 are associated with the syndrome. Only 14 individuals with this ultra-rare syndrome (12 of them were molecularly confirmed) have hitherto been reported in the literature...
June 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37323194/triosephosphate-isomerase-deficiency-e105d-mutation-in-unrelated-patients-and-review-of-the-literature
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Arzu Selamioğlu, Meryem Karaca, Mehmet Cihan Balcı, Hüseyin Kutay Körbeyli, Aslı Durmuş, Edibe Pembegül Yıldız, Serap Karaman, Gülden Fatma Gökçay
INTRODUCTION: Chronic haemolytic anaemia, increased susceptibility to infections, cardiomyopathy, neurodegeneration, and death in early childhood are the clinical findings of triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) deficiency, which is an ultra-rare disorder. The clinical and laboratory findings and the outcomes of 2 patients with TPI deficiency are reported, with a review of cases reported in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: Two unrelated patients with haemolytic anaemia and neurologic findings who were diagnosed as having TPI deficiency are presented...
June 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37323193/dicentric-recombinant-chromosome-18-due-to-maternal-paracentric-inversion-analyzed-by-array-cgh
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Özlem Anlaş, Akgün Ölmez, Birsen Karaman, Füsun Düzcan, Selçuk Yüksel, Funda Tümkaya, Gülseren Bağcı, Cavidan Nur Semerci Gündüz
INTRODUCTION: Chromosomal abnormalities are mostly found in 0.5-0.8% of live-born infants with developmental and morphological defects. Paracentric inversions are structural intrachromosomal rearrangements resulting in a risk of chromosomally unbalanced gametes in carriers. CASE PRESENTATION: Herein, we report a patient with dicentric rearrangement of chromosome 18 due to maternal paracentric inversion of chromosome 18. The patient was a girl, aged 3 years and 11 months...
June 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37064343/overlapping-interstitial-deletions-of-the-region-9q22-33-to-9q33-3-of-three-patients-allow-pinpointing-candidate-genes-for-epilepsy-and-cleft-lip-and-palate
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Renata Szalai, Agnes Till, Andras Szabo, Bela Melegh, Kinga Hadzsiev, Marta Czako
INTRODUCTION: Patients carrying interstitial deletions of the long arm of chromosome 9 show similar features. These phenotypes are often characterized by developmental delay, intellectual disability, short stature, and dysmorphism. Previously reported deletions differ in size and location spanning from 9q21 to 9q34 and were mostly detected by conventional cytogenetic techniques. METHODS: Based on clinical features suggesting primarily chromosomal diseases, aCGH analysis was indicated...
April 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37064342/a-second-family-with-myhre-syndrome-caused-by-the-same-recurrent-smad4-pathogenic-variation-p-arg496cys
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Şenol Demir, Ceren Alavanda, Gözde Yeşil, Ayça Dilruba Aslanger, Esra Arslan Ateş
INTRODUCTION: Myhre syndrome (MS; OMIM #139210) is a rare connective tissue disorder presenting with cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and skeletal system findings. Fewer than 100 patients were reported until recently, and all molecularly confirmed cases had de novo heterozygous gain-of-function mutations in the SMAD4 gene. Dysregulation of the TGF-beta signaling pathway leads to axial and appendicular skeleton, connective tissue, cardiovascular system, and central nervous system abnormalities...
April 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37064341/severe-antenatal-hypertrophic-cardiomyopathy-secondary-to-acad9-related-mitochondrial-complex-i-deficiency
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Charlotte Dubucs, Jacqueline Aziza, Agnès Sartor, François Heitz, Annick Sevely, Damien Sternberg, Claude Jardel, Tiscar Cavallé-Garrido, Steffen Albrecht, Chantal Bernard, Isabelle De Bie, Nicolas Chassaing
INTRODUCTION: Antenatal presentation of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is rare. We describe familial recurrence of antenatal HCM associated with intrauterine growth restriction and the diagnostic process undertaken. METHODS: Two pregnancies with antenatal HCM were followed up. Biological assessment including metabolic analyses, genetic analyses, and respiratory chain study was performed. We describe the clinical course of these two pregnancies, antenatal manifestations as well as specific histopathological findings, and review the literature...
April 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37064340/novel-variant-in-the-usp9x-gene-is-associated-with-congenital-heart-disease-in-a-male-patient-a-case-report-and-literature-review
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Cristiana Agazzi, Monia Magliozzi, Onofrio Iacoviello, Stefano Palladino, Maurizio Delvecchio, Maristella Masciopinto, Alessio Galati, Antonio Novelli, Francesco Andrea Causio, Giuseppe Zampino, Claudia Ruggiero, Rita Fischetto
INTRODUCTION: The X-chromosomal USP9X gene encodes a deubiquitylating enzyme involved in protein turnover and TGF-β signaling during fetal and neuronal development. USP9X variants in females are primarily associated with complete loss-of-function (LOF) alleles, leading to neurodevelopmental delay and intellectual disability, as well as a wide range of congenital anomalies. In contrast, USP9X missense variants in males often result in partial rather than complete LOF, specifically affecting neuronal migration and development...
April 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37064339/case-report-of-two-siblings-diagnosed-with-osteogenesis-imperfecta-type-xv-with-a-new-mutation-in-the-wnt1-gene-and-review-of-the-literature
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Büşra Eser Çavdartepe, Rojan İpek
INTRODUCTION: Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a heritable disorder characterized by bone fractures and low bone mass. Recently, mutations of the WNT1 gene have been reported to be causative in OI. The mutation in WNT1 causes autosomal-recessive OI due to its critical role in bone formation. WNT1 mutations cause varying degrees of clinical severity, ranging from moderate to progressively deforming forms. In addition to the OI phenotype, our cases also had extra-skeletal findings. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe two siblings with multiple fractures and developmental delay...
April 2023: Molecular Syndromology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37064338/fibular-agenesis-and-ball-like-toes-mimicking-preaxial-polydactyly-prenatal-presentation-of-du-pan-syndrome
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G Tutku Turgut, Ibrahim Halil Kalelioglu, Volkan Karaman, Tugba Sarac Sivrikoz, Birsen Karaman, Zehra Oya Uyguner, Tugba Kalayci
INTRODUCTION: GDF5-BMPR1B signaling pathway-associated chondrodysplasias are a genetically heterogeneous group of conditions with significant phenotypic and genotypic overlap, consisting of Hunter-Thompson-type acromesomelic dysplasia, Grebe dysplasia, and Du Pan syndrome. Constituting a spectrum of clinical severity, these disorders are characterized by disproportionate short stature mainly involving middle and distal segments of the extremities. Du Pan syndrome represents the mildest end of this spectrum with less marked shortened limbs, fibular agenesis or hypoplasia, absence of frequent joint dislocations, and carpotarsal fusions with deformed phalangeal bones...
April 2023: Molecular Syndromology
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