HOXA genes cluster: clinical implications of the smallest deletion.

ABSTRACT:

Background

HOXA genes cluster plays a fundamental role in embryologic development. Deletion of the entire cluster is known to cause a clinically recognizable syndrome with mild developmental delay, characteristic facies, small feet with unusually short and big halluces, abnormal thumbs, and urogenital malformations. The clinical manifestations may vary with different ranges of deletions of HOXA cluster and flanking regions.

Case presentation

We report a girl with the smallest deletion reported to date involving the entire HOXA cluster at 7p15.2-p14.3. The patient was the third child born to a healthy and non-consanguineous Italian couple. She was born at the 34th week of gestation by caesarean section due to cholestasis of pregnancy. Her birth weight, length, and occipitofro

SUBMITTER: Pezzani L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4395968 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature