Microphthalmia, facial anomalies, microcephaly, thumb and hallux hypoplasia, and agammaglobulinemia

A Verloes, MF Dresse, H Keutgen… - American journal of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
A Verloes, MF Dresse, H Keutgen, C Asplund, CIE Smith
American journal of medical genetics, 2001Wiley Online Library
We report a boy, born to consanguineous patients, with agammaglobulinemia associated
with multiple physical anomalies: mild intrauterine growth retardation, extreme
microphthalmia (clinical anophthalmia), severe microcephaly, blepharophimosis, long face
with temporal narrowing, scaphocephalic skull shape, posterior cleft palate, hypoplastic,
adducted thumbs with small nails, and short, inward turned halluces with absent distal
phalanges and nails. Psychomotor development was moderately delayed. No mutations …
Abstract
We report a boy, born to consanguineous patients, with agammaglobulinemia associated with multiple physical anomalies: mild intrauterine growth retardation, extreme microphthalmia (clinical anophthalmia), severe microcephaly, blepharophimosis, long face with temporal narrowing, scaphocephalic skull shape, posterior cleft palate, hypoplastic, adducted thumbs with small nails, and short, inward turned halluces with absent distal phalanges and nails. Psychomotor development was moderately delayed. No mutations were found in exons of BKT and PAX‐5 genes. This unreported constellation could represent a novel, autosomal recessive syndrome. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Wiley Online Library