A 18p11.23-p11.31 microduplication in a boy with psychomotor delay, cerebellar vermis hypoplasia, chorioretinal coloboma, deafness and GH deficiency.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rearrangements involving the short arm of chromosome 18 have been extensively described. Here we report a microduplication of 320.5-431.5 Kb at 18p11.31-p11.23 in a 10 year-old boy.

Case presentation

In a 10 year-old boy with moderate psychomotor delay, hypoplasia of the cerebellar vermis, chorioretinal coloboma, deafness and growth hormone deficiency (GHD), an interstitial microduplication at 18p11.31-p11.23 was identified by array-CGH. This maternally inherited microduplication, encompasses three genes, namely ARHGAP28, LINC00668 and LAMA1 (a gene involved in cerebellum and retinal development).

Conclusions

The genotype-phenotype is discussed with particular attention to the LAMA1 gene, although it is difficult, as in many othe

SUBMITTER: Giordano M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5135744 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature