Alessia Micalizzi, Andrea Poretti, Marta Romani, Monia Ginevrino, Tommaso Mazza, Chiara Aiello, Ginevra Zanni, Bastian Baumgartner, Renato Borgatti, Knut Brockmann, Ana Camacho, Gaetano Cantalupo, Martin Haeusler, Christiane Hikel, Andrea Klein, Giorgia Mandrile, Eugenio Mercuri, Dietz Rating, Romina Romaniello, Filippo Maria Santorelli, Mareike Schimmel, Luigina Spaccini, Serap Teber, Arpad von Moers, Sarah Wente, Andreas Ziegler, Andrea Zonta, Enrico Bertini, Eugen Boltshauser, Enza Maria Valente
Cerebellar dysplasia with cysts and abnormal shape of the fourth ventricle, in the absence of significant supratentorial anomalies and of muscular involvement, defines recessively inherited Poretti-Boltshauser syndrome (PBS). Clinical features comprise non-progressive cerebellar ataxia, intellectual disability of variable degree, language impairment, ocular motor apraxia and frequent occurrence of myopia or retinopathy. Recently, loss-of-function variants in the LAMA1 gene were identified in six probands with PBS...
August 2016: European Journal of Human Genetics: EJHG