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HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 130, Issue 6, Pages 777-787Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-011-1020-y
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- MacDonald family
- Chromosome 18 Registry & Research Society
- Institute for the Integration of Medicine and Science (National Center for Research Resources) [UL 1RR025767]
- CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children's Hospital
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The goal of this study is to define the effects of TCF4 hemizygosity in the context of a larger segmental deletion of chromosome 18q. Our cohort included 37 individuals with deletions of 18q. Twenty-seven had deletions including TCF4 (TCF4 (+/-)); nine had deletions that did not include TCF4 (TCF4 (+/+)); and one individual had a microdeletion that included only the TCF4 gene. We compared phenotypic data from the participants' medical records, survey responses, and in-person evaluations. Features unique to the TCF4 (+/-) individuals included abnormal corpus callosum, short neck, small penis, accessory and wide-spaced nipples, broad or clubbed fingers, and sacral dimple. The developmental data revealed that TCF4 (+/+) individuals were only moderately developmentally delayed while TCF4 (+/-) individuals failed to reach developmental milestones beyond those typically acquired by 12 months of age. TCF4 hemizygosity also conferred an increased risk of early death principally due to aspiration-related complications. Hemizygosity for TCF4 confers a significant impact primarily with regard to cognitive and motor development, resulting in a very different prognosis for individuals hemizygous for TCF4 when compared to individuals hemizygous for other regions of distal 18q.
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