Journal article
Microdeletion of 17q22q23.2 encompassing TBX2 and TBX4 in a patient with congenital microcephaly, thyroid duct cyst, sensorineural hearing loss, and pulmonary hypertension
American journal of medical genetics. Part A, Vol.155A(2), pp.418-423
02/2011
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.33827
PMID: 21271665
Abstract
Microdeletions of the long arm of chromosome 17 are being reported with increasing frequency. Deletions of 17q22q23.2 may represent a genetically recognizable phenotype although its spectrum of genomic abnormalities, clinical manifestations, and critical regions are not fully delineated. Isolated reports and small case series suggest that deletions of 17q22q23.2 result in haploinsufficiency of dosage sensitive genes NOG, TBX2, and TBX4, which may be responsible for many aspects of the phenotype. Shared clinical features in this group of patients include microcephaly, prenatal onset growth restriction, heart defects, tracheoesophageal fistula, and esophageal atresia (TEF/EA), skeletal anomalies, and moderate to severe global developmental delay. We describe a female patient who presented with severe congenital microcephaly, thyroglossal duct cyst, sensorineural hearing loss, mild tracheomalacia, abnormal auricles, pulmonary hypertension, developmental delay, and postnatal onset growth delay. She had no TEF/EA or heart defects. Using a high density oligonucleotide microarray, we identified a microdeletion at 17q22q23.2, resulting in the heterozygous loss of several genes, including TBX2 and TBX4 but not NOG. The breakpoints did not lie within known segmental duplications. This case helps to further delineate the critical region for TEF/EA, which is likely confined to the chromosomal region proximal to 17q23.1, and suggests that genes in 17q23.1q23.2 may be associated with thyroglossal duct cysts. The role of TBX2 and TBX4 in pulmonary hypertension warrants investigation.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Microdeletion of 17q22q23.2 encompassing TBX2 and TBX4 in a patient with congenital microcephaly, thyroid duct cyst, sensorineural hearing loss, and pulmonary hypertension
- Creators
- Manjunath Nimmakayalu - Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USAHeather MajorVal SheffieldDonald H SolomonRichard J SmithShivanand R PatilOleg A Shchelochkov
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- American journal of medical genetics. Part A, Vol.155A(2), pp.418-423
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1002/ajmg.a.33827
- PMID
- 21271665
- ISSN
- 1552-4825
- eISSN
- 1552-4833
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/2011
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; Anatomy and Cell Biology; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Medical Genetics and Genomics; Otolaryngology; Internal Medicine; Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984007169002771
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