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  • - Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) is a rare genetic disorder that typically appears in childhood and is characterized by early contractures, progressive muscle weakness, and serious heart issues.
  • - A study evaluated 32 EDMD patients from 14 families in Istanbul, finding that the majority had EDMD1 (58%), while others had EDMD2 (21%) and EDMD3 (7%), with genetic testing confirming a diagnosis in 86% of classical cases.
  • - The research identified three new pathogenic variants related to EDMD and highlights its significance as the largest Turkish cohort, enhancing understanding and genetic testing for the condition in Turkey.
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Sotos syndrome (SS) is characterized by overgrowth, distinctive facial appearance, and learning disability. It is caused by heterozygous mutations, including deletions of NSD1 located at chromosome 5q35. While advanced bone age can occur in some cases, precocious puberty (PP) has only been reported in three cases previously.

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Congenital myasthenic syndromes are rare hereditary disorders caused by mutations associated with proteins of the neuromuscular junction. Abnormal ''gain of function'' mutations result in prolonged nicotinic acetylcholine receptor channel open state causing a rare subtype of CMS, slow-channel CMS (SCCMS). Mutations in the delta subunit encoding the gene, CHRND, resulting in SCCMS are extremely rare.

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Hypomagnesemia is a rare cause of seizures in childhood but should be kept in mind in recurrent and intractable seizures and hypocalcemia in communities where consanguineous marriages are common. Familial hypomagnesemia with secondary hypocalcemia is a rare genetic cause of hypomagnesemia, due to variants in the 6 () genes. Here, a three year-old boy with a novel variant in this gene and had difficulties with enteral hypomagnesemia treatment is presented.

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Hypokalemia and hearing loss in a 3-year-old boy: Answers.

Pediatr Nephrol

April 2020

Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Ankara Child Health and Diseases Hematology Oncology Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey.

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Hypokalemia and hearing loss in a 3-year-old boy: Questions.

Pediatr Nephrol

April 2020

Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Ankara Child Health and Diseases Hematology Oncology Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey.

Bartter syndrome with sensorineural deafness (Bartter syndrome type 4) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized with polyhydramniosis, premature birth, massive polyuria, renal salt-wasting, hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis, normotensive hyperreninemic hyperaldosteronism, and hearing loss. Homozygous mutations in BSND, CLCNKA, and CLCNKB mutations cause the disorder. Here we report a 3-year-old boy who had not been evaluated and investigated before cochlear implantation.

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Aims: Fabry disease is an X-linked lysosomal storage disorder due to a deficiency of the α-galactosidase A enzyme. Cardiac involvement is present in over 60% of adult cases of Fabry disease. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy without left ventricular outflow tract obstruction is the most common phenotype.

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Identification of a New Mutation Underlying Regressive Episodic Ataxia Type I.

Front Neurol

July 2018

Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.

Episodic ataxia type 1 (EA1), a -like K, is a consequence of genetic anomalies in the gene that lead to dysfunctions in the voltage-gated K channel Kv1. 1. Generally, mutations are inherited in an autosomal dominant manner.

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  • Argininemia is a genetic disorder caused by a lack of hepatic arginase, an enzyme that plays a crucial role in breaking down arginine in the urea cycle.
  • The case report discusses a patient with arginase I deficiency who experienced repeated nonconvulsive status epilepticus and liver failure.
  • A new genetic mutation was identified in the patient, described as a homozygous frameshift mutation (c.703_707delGGACTinsAGACTGGACC) leading to a change in the protein (p.G235Rfs*20).
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Işıkay S, Yaman A, Ceylaner S. An infant with glutaric aciduria type IIc diagnosed with a novel mutation. Turk J Pediatr 2017; 59: 315-317.

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Background: Bannayan Riley Ruvalcaba syndrome (BRRS) is exceedingly rare, with only about 50 reported cases to date.

Case Presentation: We report a patient with hypoglycemia, precocious puberty and diffuse testicular microlithiasis accompanying BRRS, and think that this case is important in the light of a newly identified mutation in the PTEN gene.

Conclusions: Close attention must be paid in terms of PTEN mutations in cases of macrocephaly and accompanying neurological and dermatological findings.

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Background: Glycogen synthase deficiency, also known as glycogenosis (GSD) type 0 is an inborn error of glycogen metabolism caused by mutations in the GYS2 gene, which is transmitted in an autosomal recessive trait. It is a rare form of hepatic glycogen storage disease with less than 30 cases reported in the literature so far. The disorder is characterized by fasting hyperketotic hypoglycemia without hyperalaninemia or hyperlactacidemia.

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Al-Awadi-Raas-Rothschild syndrome (AARRS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder which consists of severe malformations of the upper and lower limbs, abnormal genitalia and underdeveloped pelvis. Here, we present a fetus with severe limbs defects, including bilateral humeroradial synostosis, bilateral oligodactyly in hands, underdeveloped pelvis, short femora and tibiae, absence of fibulae, severely small feet, and absence of uterus. An autosomal recessively inherited novel mutation in WNT7A found in the fetus, c.

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Genes that Affect Brain Structure and Function Identified by Rare Variant Analyses of Mendelian Neurologic Disease.

Neuron

November 2015

Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Electronic address:

Development of the human nervous system involves complex interactions among fundamental cellular processes and requires a multitude of genes, many of which remain to be associated with human disease. We applied whole exome sequencing to 128 mostly consanguineous families with neurogenetic disorders that often included brain malformations. Rare variant analyses for both single nucleotide variant (SNV) and copy number variant (CNV) alleles allowed for identification of 45 novel variants in 43 known disease genes, 41 candidate genes, and CNVs in 10 families, with an overall potential molecular cause identified in >85% of families studied.

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