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acromelic frontonasal dysostosis

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A dysostosis characterized by cranium bifidum, severe hypertelorism, median cleft lip and palate, nasal bifurcation, brachycephaly, large fontanelle, tibial hemimelia, preaxial polydactyly of the feet and brain malformations and that has_material_basis_in hete

A dysostosis characterized by cranium bifidum, severe hypertelorism, median cleft lip and palate, nasal bifurcation, brachycephaly, large fontanelle, tibial hemimelia, preaxial polydactyly of the feet and brain malformations and that has_material_basis_in heterozygous mutation in the ZSWIM6 gene on chromosome 5q12.

Signs and symptoms

  • Midline defect of the nose
  • Hypertelorism
  • Vertical clivus
  • Midline facial cleft
  • Wide nasal bridge
  • Patellar hypoplasia
  • Aplasia of the olfactory bulb
  • Telecanthus
  • Tubulonodular pericallosal lipoma
  • Absent fetal nasal bone