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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART A
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WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.63476
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array-CGH; 22q11.2 region; cat eye syndrome; congenital heart disease; eye anomalies; familial disease; FISH; heart defect; mosacism; parental transmission; small supernumerary marker chromosome (sSMC)
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Cat Eye Syndrome (CES) is a rare genetic disease with high clinical and genetic heterogeneity. This international retrospective study focuses on patients carrying genomic gain in the 22q11.21 chromosomal region and reveals that the typical clinical triad is only present in a minority of cases. Other impairments such as cardiac anomalies and intellectual disability are also common. The most frequent chromosomal anomaly observed is sSMC, which has a relatively high prevalence of parental transmission.
Cat Eye Syndrome (CES) is a rare genetic disease caused by the presence of a small supernumerary marker chromosome derived from chromosome 22, which results in a partial tetrasomy of 22p-22q11.21. CES is classically defined by association of iris coloboma, anal atresia, and preauricular tags or pits, with high clinical and genetic heterogeneity. We conducted an international retrospective study of patients carrying genomic gain in the 22q11.21 chromosomal region upstream from LCR22-A identified using FISH, MLPA, and/or array-CGH. We report a cohort of 43 CES cases. We highlight that the clinical triad represents no more than 50% of cases. However, only 16% of CES patients presented with the three signs of the triad and 9% not present any of these three signs. We also highlight the importance of other impairments: cardiac anomalies are one of the major signs of CES (51% of cases), and high frequency of intellectual disability (47%). Ocular motility defects (45%), abdominal malformations (44%), ophthalmologic malformations (35%), and genitourinary tract defects (32%) are other frequent clinical features. We observed that sSMC is the most frequent chromosomal anomaly (91%) and we highlight the high prevalence of mosaic cases (40%) and the unexpectedly high prevalence of parental transmission of sSMC (23%). Most often, the transmitting parent has mild or absent features and carries the mosaic marker at a very low rate (<10%). These data allow us to better delineate the clinical phenotype associated with CES, which must be taken into account in the cytogenetic testing for this syndrome. These findings draw attention to the need for genetic counseling and the risk of recurrence.
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