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8p11.2 deletion syndrome
Disease definition
8p11.2 deletion syndrome is a contiguous gene syndrome characterized by the association of congenital spherocytosis, dysmorphic features, growth delay and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism.
ORPHA:251066
Classification level: Disorder- Synonym(s):
- Del(8)(p11.2)
- Monosomy 8p11.2
- Prevalence: <1 / 1 000 000
- Inheritance: Not applicable or Unknown
- Age of onset: Infancy, Neonatal
- ICD-10: Q93.5
- ICD-11: LD44.81
- OMIM: -
- UMLS: C4304505
- MeSH: -
- GARD: -
- MedDRA: -
Summary
Epidemiology
It has been described in 8 patients to date.
Clinical description
Common dysmorphic features include micrognathia, microcephaly, preauricular pits, high-arched palate and abnormal ears. All patients except one have intellectual deficit. In one patient, the association of anosmia was suggestive of Kallmann syndrome (see this term).
Etiology
The syndrome is caused by deletions of the proximal part of the short arm of chromosome 8 (8p11.1 to 8p21). The deletions can be cytogenetically detected and their size is variable. The loss of the ankyrin-1 gene (ANK1) results in congenital spherocytosis.
A summary on this disease is available in Deutsch (2011) Español (2011) Français (2011) Italiano (2011) Nederlands (2011) Português (2011) Greek (2011, pdf) Japanese (2011, pdf) Polski (2011, pdf)
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