Cutis laxa, fat pads and retinopathy due to ALDH18A1 mutation and review of the literature.

Autosomal recessive cutis laxa (ARCL) is a connective tissue disorder characterized by wrinkled, inelastic skin, frequently associated with a neurologic involvement and multisystem disease. Next generation sequencing was performed in genetically unsolved patients with progeroid features, neurological and eye involvement to assess the underlying etiology. We describe an 6 month old child, diagnosed with a novel, homozygous nonsense mutation c.