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Mild prenatal growth retardation
Moderate postnatal growth retardation
Mild to severe developmental delay
Severely impaired speech
Seizures
Microcephaly
Sparse hair
Progressive skin wrinkling
Thick, anteverted alae nasi
Long and broad philtrum
Large mouth
Thin upper and thick lower vermilion
Progressive prominence of distal phalanges
Progressive prominence of inter-phalangeal joints
Short metacarpals–metatarsals
Common signs of Say–Meyer syndrome are trigonocephaly as well as head and neck symptoms. The head and neck symptoms come in the form of craniosynostosis affecting the metopic suture (the dense connective tissue structure that divides the two halves of the skull in children which usually fuse together by the age of six). Symptoms of Say–Meyer syndrome other than developmental delay and short stature include
- Intellectual disability.
- Low-set ears/posteriorly rotated ears
- Intellectual deficit as well as learning disability
- Intrauterine growth retardation (poor growth of a baby while it is in the mother's womb)
- Posterior fontanel
- Premature synostosis of the lambdoid suture (the fusion of the bones to the joint is premature)
- Narrow forehead
- Trigonocephaly (a frontal bone anomaly that is characterized by a premature fusion of the bones which gives the forehead a triangular shape)
- Hypotelorism or hypertelorism (reduced or increased width between the eyes)
- Craniosynostosis (when one or more seam-like junctions between two bones fuses by turning into bone. This changes the growth pattern of the skull)
- Low birth weight and height
The affected patients sometimes show a highly arched palate, clinodactyly (a defect in which toes or fingers are positioned abnormally) and ventricular septal defect (a heart defect that allows blood to pass directly from left to the right ventricle which is caused by an opening in the septum). Overall, Say–Meyer syndrome impairs growth, motor function, and mental state.
The most common symptoms of Nicolaides–Baraitser syndrome are mild to severe developmental delays with absent or limited speech, seizures, short stature, sparse hair, typical facial characteristics, brachydactyly, and prominent finger joints and broad distal phalanges.
Affected newborns generally have striking neurological defects and seizures. Severely impaired development is common, but disturbances in motor functions may not appear until later in life.
Infants with microcephaly are born with either a normal or reduced head size. Subsequently, the head fails to grow, while the face continues to develop at a normal rate, producing a child with a small head and a receding forehead, and a loose, often wrinkled scalp. As the child grows older, the smallness of the skull becomes more obvious, although the entire body also is often underweight and dwarfed. Development of motor functions and speech may be delayed. Hyperactivity and intellectual disability are common occurrences, although the degree of each varies. Convulsions may also occur. Motor ability varies, ranging from in some to spastic quadriplegia in others.
Symptoms include:
- intellectual disability (more than half of the patients have an IQ below 50)
- microcephaly
- sometimes pancytopenia (low blood counts)
- cryptorchidism
- low birth weight
- dislocations of pelvis and elbow
- unusually large eyes
- low ears
- small chin
Strabismus and nystagmus are prevalent in distal 18q-. Changes in the optic nerve, as well as colobomas, are also fairly common. Myopia has been reported in some individuals.
Hypotonia is a common finding. Around 10% of people with distal 18q- have seizures.
Children with the Sanjad Sakati syndrome have a triad of:
a) hypoparathyroidism (with episodes of hypocalcemia, hypocalcemic tetany and hypocalcemic seizures.
b) severe mental retardation and
c) dysmorphism.
Typically, children with this syndrome are born low-birth-weight due to intrauterine growth retardation. At birth, there is dysmorphism, which is later typified into the features described below. The child is stunted, often with demonstrable growth hormone deficiency and has moderate to severe mental retardation, mainly as a consequence of repeated seizures brought on by the low blood ionic calcium levels. The immuno-reactive parathormone levels are low to undetectable, with low calcium and high phosphate levels in the blood.
"Dysmorphism" is most evident on the face, with the following features:
- Long narrow face
- Deep-set, small eyes
- Beaked nose
- Large, floppy ears
- Small head (microcephaly) and
- Thin lips with a long philtrum.
It is a disorder that is mostly characterized as developmental delay and short stature. Magnetic resonance imaging scans usually reveal that there is a decreased volume of white matter in the bilateral cerebral hemispheres, a brain stem that is smaller in size, and a thin corpus callosum (nerve fibers that connect the two hemispheres of the brain). The syndrome is one of the rare causes of short stature.
Other features include:
- Stunting
- Small hands and feet with long, tapering fingers and clinodactyly
- Dental anomalies in the form of malalignment and malocclusion
In another study of six patients, the patients were investigated further. They were found to have low levels of IGF-1 and markedly retarded bone age.
Microcephaly is a type of cephalic disorder. It has been classified in two types based on the onset:
Microcephaly is a disorder in which the circumference of the head is smaller than average for the person's age and gender. Most children with microcephaly also have a smaller than typical brain and intellectual disability. Some of the most common signs and symptoms associated with microcephaly are seizures, poor feeding, high pitched cry, intellectual disability, developmental delay, and increased movement of arms and legs.
Genitopatellar syndrome is a rare condition characterized by genital abnormalities, missing or underdeveloped kneecaps (patellae), intellectual disability, and abnormalities affecting other parts of the body.
Genitopatellar syndrome is also associated with delayed development and intellectual disability, which are often severe. Affected individuals may have an unusually small head (microcephaly) and structural brain abnormalities, including underdeveloped or absent tissue connecting the left and right halves of the brain (agenesis of the corpus callosum).
Micro syndrome can be identified in people several ways, one of the most common is ocular problems or other physical traits that don't appear natural. It is especially easy to identify micro syndrome in infants and in younger children. Intellectual or developmental disabilities can seriously affect a patient in the way they think and move. So far according to studies all patients have had serious intellectual or developmental disabilities, and hypotonia is found in all the patients during infancy.
SFMS affects the skeletal and nervous system. This syndrome's external signs would be an unusual facial appearance with their heads being slightly smaller and unusually shaped, a narrow face which is also called dolichocephaly, a large mouth with a drooping lower lip that are held open, protruding upper jaw, widely spaced upper front teeth, an underdeveloped chin, cleft palate and exotropied-slanted eyes with drooping eyelids.
Males who have SFMS have short stature and a thin body build. Also skin is lightly pigmented with multiple freckles. They may have scoliosis and chest abnormalities.
Affected boys have reduced muscle tone as infants and young children. X-rays sometimes show that their bones are underdeveloped and show characteristics of younger bones of children. Boys usually under the age of 10 have reduced muscle tone but later, patients with SFMS over the age of 10 have increased muscle tone and reflexes that cause spasticity. Their hands are short with unusual palm creases with short, shaped fingers and foot abnormalities are shortened and have fused toes and usually mild.
They have an absent of a spleen and the genitals may also show undescended testes ranging from mild to severe that leads to female gender assignment.
People who have SFMS have severe mental retardation. They are sometimes restless, behavior problems, seizures and severe delay in language development. They are self-absorbed with reduced ability to socialize with others around them. They also have psychomotor retardation which is the slowing-down of thoughts and a reduction of physical movements. They have cortical atrophy or degeneration of the brain's outer layer. Cortical atrophy is usually founded in older affected people.
Vision abnormalities in children with 1p36 have been wide-ranging, including:
People with Renpenning's typically begin learning language at an ordinary pace, but by the age of 3–4 they experience a regression in mental and physical development, such as mild low muscle tone resulting in elongated faces and rapid loss in the normal growth of the head (microcephaly). Small testes and short stature are also known to commonly occur.
This syndrome consists a number of typical features. These include
- Agenesis of the corpus callosum (80-99% patients)
- Hypopigmentation of the eyes and hair (80-99% patients)
- Cardiomyopathy (80-99% patients)
- Combined immunodeficiency (80-99% patients)
- Muscular hypotonia (80-99% patients)
- Abnormality of retinal pigmentation (80-99% patients)
- Recurrent chest infections (80-99% patients)
- Abnormal EEG (80-99% patients)
- Intellectual disability (80-99% patients)
- Cataracts (75%)
- Seizures (65%)
- Renal abnormalities (15%)
Infections of the gastrointestinal and urinary tracts are common. Swallowing and feeding difficulties early on may result in a failure to thrive. Optic nerve hypoplasia, nystagmus and photophobia may occur. Facial dysmorphism (cleft lip/palate and micrognathia) and syndactyly may be present. Sensorineural hearing loss may also be present.
Death in infancy is not uncommon and is usually due to cardiac complications or severe infections.
Aneuploidy is often fatal, but in this case there is "X-inactivation" where the effect of the additional gene dosage due to the presence of extra X chromosomes is greatly reduced.
Much like Down syndrome, the mental effects of 49,XXXXY syndrome vary. Impaired speech and behavioral problems are typical. Those with 49,XXXXY syndrome tend to exhibit infantile secondary sex characteristics with sterility in adulthood and have some skeletal anomalies. Skeletal anomalies include:
- Genu valgum
- Pes cavus
- Fifth finger clinodactyly
The effects also include:
- Cleft palate
- Club feet
- Respiratory conditions
- Short or/and broad neck
- Low birth weight
- Hyperextensible joints
- Short stature
- Narrow shoulders
- Coarse features in older age
- Hypertelorism
- Epicanthal folds
- Prognathism
- Gynecomastia (rare)
- Muscular hypotonia
- Hypoplastic genitalia
- Cryptorchidism
- Congenital heart defects
- A very round face in infancy
The syndrome causes cerebellar ataxia (balance and coordination problems), mental retardation, congenital cataracts in early childhood, muscle weakness, inability to chew food, thin brittle fingernails, and sparse hair.
Small stature, mild to severe mental retardation and dysarthria (slow, imprecise speech) are usually present.
Various skeletal abnormalities (e.g., curvature of the spine) and hypergonadotropic hypogonadism often occur.
Muscle weakness is progressive, but life expectancy is near normal.
Approximately 100 cases have been described in the literature to date.
The facial features are characteristic and include
- Deep set eyes
- Strabismus
- Myopia
- Marked nasal root
- Broad and/or beaked nasal bridge
- Prominent Cupid's bow
- Everted lower lip
- Tented upper lip
- Large mouth
- Widely spaced teeth
- Wide and shallow palate
- Ears with thick and overfolded helix
Most have a smiling appearance.
Intellectual disability is severe. Language is absent or limited to only a few words. Stereotypic movements particularly of the arms, wrists and fingers is almost universal. Hypotonia is common (75%) as is an unsteady gait. All have delayed walking. Other features include a single (simian) palmar crease, long, slender fingers, flat feet and cryptorchidism (in males). Finger clubbing and the presence of fetal pads is common. Hyperventilation occurs in over half and is frequently followed by apnea and cyanosis. During these episodes aerophagia may occur. Constipation is common. Microcephaly and seizures may occur. Hypopigmented skin macules have occasionally been reported.
Genitopatellar syndrome is a rare disorder with characteristic craniofacial features, congenital flexion contractures of the lower limbs, absent or abnormal patellae, urogenital anomalies, and severe psychomotor retardation.
In 2012, it was shown that mutations in the gene KAT6B cause the syndrome.
People with Aarskog-Scott syndrome often have distinctive facial features, such as widely spaced eyes (hypertelorism), a small nose, a long area between the nose and mouth (philtrum), and a widow's peak hairline. They frequently have mild to moderate short stature during childhood, but their growth usually catches up with that of their peers during puberty. Hand abnormalities are common in this syndrome and include short fingers (brachydactyly), curved pinky fingers (fifth finger clinodactyly), webbing of the skin between some fingers (cutaneous syndactyly), and a single crease across the palm. Other abnormalities in people with Aarskog-Scott syndrome include heart defects and a split in the upper lip (cleft lip) with or without an opening in the roof of the mouth (cleft palate).
Most males with Aarskog-Scott syndrome have a shawl scrotum, in which the scrotum surrounds the penis instead of hanging below. Less often, they have undescended testes (cryptorchidism) or a soft out-pouching around the belly-button (umbilical hernia) or in the lower abdomen (inguinal hernia).
The intellectual development of people with Aarskog-Scott syndrome varies widely. Some may have mild learning and behavior problems, while others have normal intelligence. In rare cases, severe intellectual disability has been reported.
Micro syndrome also known as WARBM, and Warburg–Sjo–Fledelius syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder characterized by microcephaly, microcornea, congenital cataract, intellectual or developmental disability, optic atrophy, and hypogenitalism.
The main characteristics of 49,XXXXX are intellectual disability, short stature and craniofacial abnormalities. Other physical traits include the following:
- Small head
- Ear abnormalities
- Widely spaced eyes with upward slanting palpebral fissures and epicanthal folds
- Short neck
- Broad nose with a depressed nasal bridge
- Hyperextension of the elbows
- Dental abnormalities and cleft palate
- Clinodactyly of the 5th finger
- Deformities of the feet
- Heart defects