Publications by authors named "F Silan"

Mowat-Wilson syndrome (MWS) is a complex disorder caused by heterozygous ZEB2 gene variations creating haploinsufficiency. The main clinical features are evolving facial dysmorphism, intellectual disability, eye and brain malformations, and various organ anomalies. Our study examines 10 Turkish patients, who had clinical diagnosis, underwent evaluation, clinical investigations, and genetic tests in multiple tertiary centers across Türkiye, and were molecularly diagnosed with MWS.

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  • Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a genetic disease linked to the SMN1 gene that causes muscle weakness, with a carrier frequency of about 1 in 50 people and a prevalence of 1-3 per 10,000 live births.
  • Turkey initiated the SMA Carrier Screening Program in 2021 to address increasing carrier rates, particularly due to consanguineous marriages, after noticing cases among children of healthcare workers who were unaware of screening options.
  • A survey of 1,322 healthcare professionals revealed that 5.8% were unfamiliar with SMA and 26% lacked knowledge of the screening program, with significant gaps noted in secondary and tertiary professionals and non-physicians, indicating a need
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Intramuscular hemangiomas (IMH) are extremely rare, accounting for 0.8% of all hemangiomas. IMH must be included in the differential diagnosis of soft tissue masses, and unexplained muscular pain.

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Intellectual and developmental disabilities result from abnormal nervous system development. Over a 1,000 genes have been associated with intellectual and developmental disabilities, driving continued efforts toward dissecting variant functionality to enhance our understanding of the disease mechanism. This report identified two novel variants in in a cohort of four patients from two unrelated families.

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Objectives: Adverse food reactions, often underestimated, encompass congenital monosaccharide-disaccharide metabolism disorders, yielding diverse outcomes such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, bleeding disorders, and even death. This study retrospectively scrutinized genetic variants linked to these disorders in a cohort subjected to whole-exome sequence analysis (WES), determining carrier frequencies and genotype-phenotype correlations.

Methods: Data from 484 patients, were retrospectively analyzed using a gene panel (ALDOB, FBP1, GALE, GALK1, GALM, GALT, LCT, SLC2A2, SLC5A1, SI) for congenital monosaccharide-disaccharide metabolism disorders.

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