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Aniridia is the absence of the iris, a muscular structure that opens and closes the pupil to allow light into the eye. It is also responsible for eye color. Without it, the central eye appears all black. It can be congenital, in which both eyes are usually involved, or caused by a penetrant injury. Isolated aniridia is a congenital disorder that is not limited to a defect in iris development, but is a panocular condition with macular and optic nerve hypoplasia, cataract, and corneal changes. Vision may be severely compromised and the disorder is frequently associated with some ocular complications: nystagmus, amblyopia, buphthalmos, and cataract. Aniridia in some individuals occurs as part of a syndrome, such as WAGR syndrome, or Gillespie syndrome.
Mulibrey nanism is a rare autosomal recessive congenital disorder. It causes severe growth failure along with abnormalities of the heart, muscle, liver, brain and eye. TRIM37 is responsible for various cellular functions including developmental patterning.
Adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive metabolic disorder characterized by the appearance of succinylaminoimidazolecarboxamide riboside and succinyladenosine (S-Ado) in cerebrospinal fluid, urine. These two succinylpurines are the dephosphorylated derivatives of SAICA ribotide (SAICAR) and adenylosuccinate (S-AMP), the two substrates of adenylosuccinate lyase (ADSL), which catalyzes an important reaction in the de novo pathway of purine biosynthesis. ADSL catalyzes two distinct reactions in the synthesis of purine nucleotides, both of which involve the β-elimination of fumarate to produce aminoimidazole carboxamide ribotide (AICAR) from SAICAR or adenosine monophosphate (AMP) from S-AMP.
Oculocerebrorenal syndrome is a rare X-linked recessive disorder characterized by congenital cataracts, hypotonia, intellectual disability, proximal tubular acidosis, aminoaciduria and low-molecular-weight proteinuria. Lowe syndrome can be considered a cause of Fanconi syndrome.
Vici syndrome, also called immunodeficiency with cleft lip/palate, cataract, hypopigmentation and absent corpus callosum, is a rare autosomal recessive congenital disorder characterized by albinism, agenesis of the corpus callosum, cataracts, cardiomyopathy, severe psychomotor retardation, seizures, immunodeficiency and recurrent severe infections. To date, about 50 cases have been reported.
Acrocallosal syndrome is an extremely rare autosomal recessive syndrome characterized by corpus callosum agenesis, polydactyly, multiple dysmorphic features, motor and intellectual disabilities, and other symptoms. The syndrome was first described by Albert Schinzel in 1979. Mutations in KIF7 are causative for ACLS, and mutations in GLI3 are associated with a similar syndrome.
Tsukuhara syndrome, also known as Radioulnar synostosis-microcephaly-scoliosis syndrome is an infrequently occurring genetic skeletal dysplasia which is characterized by a combination of radioulnar synostosis, microcephaly, scoliosis, short height, and intellectual disabilities. Only 13 cases worldwide have been described in medical literature.
Gillespie syndrome, also called aniridia, cerebellar ataxia and mental deficiency, is a rare genetic disorder. The disorder is characterized by partial aniridia, ataxia, and, in most cases, intellectual disability. It is heterogeneous, inherited in either an autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive manner. Gillespie syndrome was first described by American ophthalmologist Fredrick Gillespie in 1965.
GRACILE syndrome is a very rare lethal autosomal recessive genetic disorder, one of the Finnish heritage diseases. GRACILE syndrome has also been found in the UK and Sweden, but not nearly as much as in Finland. It is caused by a mutation in the BCS1L gene and it occurs in approximately 1 out of 50,000 live births in Finnish people. To date, there have only been 32 cases of GRACILE syndrome reported.
Anophthalmia megalocornea cardiopathy skeletal anomalies syndrome is an extremely rare multi-systemic genetic disorder which is characterized by congenital ocular, muscular, and heart abnormalities. It was first described in the children of a consanguineous couple, and it is thought to be autosomal recessive disorder with variable expressity. No new cases have been described in medical literature since 1992.
Cataract-ataxia-deafness syndrome is a very rare genetic disorder which is characterized by mild intellectual disabilities, congenital cataracts, progressive hearing loss, ataxia, peripheral neuropathy, and short height. Only two cases have been reported in medical literature.
Cryptorchidism-arachnodactyly-intellectual disability syndrome is a rare multi-systemic genetic disorder of unknown prevalence which is characterized by psycho-motor developmental delay, severe intellectual disabilities, severe muscle hypoplasia, absence of subcutaneous fat, generalized contractures, dolichocephaly, esotropia, asymmetric ears, and high palate, kyphoscoliosis, unilateral hypoplasia of the bronchial system, recurrent respiratory tract infections, atelectasis, arachnodactyly, cryptorchidism, hypospadias, and testicular agenesis. No new cases have been reported since 1970.
Trigonocephaly-bifid nose-acral anomalies syndrome is a very rare genetic disorder which is characterized by trigonobrachycephaly, narrow forehead, up-ward slanting palpebral fissures, bulbous, slightly bifid nose, macrostomia, thin upper lip, macrognathia, broad thumbs, rather large toes, broad fingertips with short nail beds, joint hypermobility and fifth finger clinodactyly (acral). Additional findings include short height, hypotonia and severe psychomotor retardation. It has been described in a brother and a sister born to healthy consanguineous Palestianian Arab parents.
Intellectual disability-spasticity-ectrodactyly syndrome, also known as Jancar syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder which is characterized by severe intellectual disabilities, hereditary spastic paraplegia, and defects of the distal limbs, such as syndactyly, ectrodactyly, and clinodactyly. Only 3 families in England and Israel have been described in medical literature.
Dermatoosteolysis, Kirghizian type is a rare presumably autosomal recessive genetic disorder characterized by the infancy-onset recurrence of the following symptoms: cutaneous ulcers, generalized arthralgia, fevers, peri-articular fistulous osteolysis, agenesis of all teeth, dystrophied nails, and keratitis. It usually decreases in severity around childhood but around that time complications have already developed, this includes skin scarring, arthroses, pseudo-acromegalic hands and feet, scoliosis, and vision loss. It has been described in 5 siblings born to healthy parents in Kyrgyzstan.
X-linked complicated corpus callosum dysgenesis is a genetic disorder characterized by dysplasia, hypoplasia or agenesis of the corpus callosum alongside variable intellectual disability and spastic paraplegia. Only 13 cases have been described in medical literature. Transmission is X-linked recessive. It is the mildest subtype of L1 syndrome.
Radio-renal syndrome is a rare, presumably autosomal dominant genetic disorder characterized by underdevelopment of the digits as a result of the maldevelopment of either the radius, ulnae, or both, alongside renal ectopia, renal agenesis, mild malformations of the external ear, short stature. An increased frequency of lymphocyte chromosomal breaks has been reported. Only 4 cases have been described in the medical literature.
Low anterior hairline is a condition in which the frontal hairline which defines the top and sides of the forehead is unusually low. This can mean that either the distance between the trichion (hairline) and glabella at the midline is more than 2 SD below the mean, or that this distance is apparently (subjectively) decreased.
15q overgrowth syndrome is a rare partial autosomal trisomy/tetrasomy syndrome. The condition was first identified in a 2009 report.
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