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syndromic microphthalmia 8

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A syndromic microphthalmia characterized by microcephaly, microphthalmia, ectrodactyly of the lower limbs, prognathism and intellectual disability that has_material_basis_in mutation in a region of chromosome 6q21.

Signs and symptoms

  • Microcephaly
  • Cleft palate
  • Microcornea
  • Blepharophimosis
  • Short palpebral fissure
  • Premature skin wrinkling
  • Split foot
  • Microphthalmia
  • Orofacial cleft
  • Widely-spaced maxillary central incisors

Also known as: MCOPS8; MMEP syndrome; Viljoen-Smart syndrome; microcephaly-microphthalmia-ectrodactyly of lower limbs-prognathism syndrome; syndromic microphthalmia type 8