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Bardet-Biedl syndrome 20

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A Bardet-Biedl syndrome that is characterized by rod-cone dystrophy, postaxial polydactyly, truncal obesity, renal anomalies, and learning disability, as well as hypogonadism in males and genital abnormalities in females and that has_material_basis_in homozygo

A Bardet-Biedl syndrome that is characterized by rod-cone dystrophy, postaxial polydactyly, truncal obesity, renal anomalies, and learning disability, as well as hypogonadism in males and genital abnormalities in females and that has_material_basis_in homozygous mutation in the IFT172 gene on chromosome 2p23.

Signs and symptoms

  • Borderline intellectual disability
  • Constriction of peripheral visual field
  • Astigmatism
  • Nyctalopia
  • Hypermetropia
  • Retinal vascular tortuosity
  • Increased intracranial pressure
  • Rod-cone dystrophy
  • Elevated circulating hepatic transaminase concentration
  • Delayed speech and language development