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microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type I

info · Genetic · ICD-10: Q87.1

An osteochondrodysplasia that is a form of microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism that is characterized by dwarfism, microcephaly, mental retardation, brain malformations, and ocular, auditory sensory deficits and that has_material_basis_in homozygo

An osteochondrodysplasia that is a form of microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism that is characterized by dwarfism, microcephaly, mental retardation, brain malformations, and ocular, auditory sensory deficits and that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the RNU4ATAC gene, encoding a small nuclear RNA component of the U12-dependent spliceosome, on chromosome 2q14.2.

Signs and symptoms

  • Microcephaly
  • Agenesis of corpus callosum
  • Intrauterine growth retardation
  • Cryptorchidism
  • Large hands
  • Renal hypoplasia
  • Short metacarpal
  • 11 pairs of ribs
  • Bowed humerus
  • Long clavicle

Also known as: Taybi-Linder syndrome; brachymelic primordial dwarfism; cephaloskeletal dysplasia; low-birth-weight dwarfism with skeletal dysplasia; osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type I