Posterior amorphous corneal dystrophy in a patient with 12q21.33 deletion.

Posterior amorphous corneal dystrophy (PACD) (OMIM 612868) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder characterized by partial or complete posterior lamellar corneal opacification, decreased corneal thickness and flattening of the corneal curvature. PACD is associated with heterozygous deletions in chromosome band 12q21.33 harboring DCN, KERA, LUM, and EPYC which encode small leucine-rich proteoglycans.

Novel truncating PPM1D mutation in a patient with intellectual disability.

Truncating mutations in the last and penultimate exons of the PPM1D gene were recently described as a cause for mild to severe intellectual disability in fourteen patients. Feeding difficulties, periods of fever and vomiting as well as a high pain threshold were described as additional characteristic features and the disorder was subsequently termed "intellectual developmental disorder with gastrointestinal difficulties and high pain threshold (IDDGIP)" in the OMIM database (MIM # 617450). Here we report on an additional patient carrying a novel de novo truncating mutation NM_003620.