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JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS
Volume 55, Issue 5, Pages 316-321Publisher
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2017-105222
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- McLaughlin Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Fondation Jeanne et Jean- Louis Levesque
- Centre for Genetic Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
- FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/84650/2010]
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Background Chitayat-Hall syndrome, initially described in 1990, is a rare condition characterised by distal arthrogryposis, intellectual disability, dysmorphic features and hypopituitarism, in particular growth hormone deficiency. The genetic aetiology has not been identified. Methods and results We identified three unrelated families with a total of six affected patients with the clinical manifestations of Chitayat-Hall syndrome. Through whole exome or whole genome sequencing, pathogenic variants in the MAGEL2 gene were identified in all affected patients. All disease-causing sequence variants detected are predicted to result in a truncated protein, including one complex variant that comprised a deletion and inversion. Conclusions Chitayat-Hall syndrome is caused by pathogenic variants in MAGEL2 and shares a common aetiology with the recently described Schaaf-Yang syndrome. The phenotype of MAGEL2-related disorders is expanded to include growth hormone deficiency as an important and treatable complication.
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