title: Homozygosity for a novel DTDST mutation in a child with a 'broad bone-platyspondylic' variant of diastrophic dysplasia.
abstract: Atypical or variant forms of well-known chondrodysplasias may pose diagnostic problems. We report on a girl with clinical features suggesting diastrophic dysplasia but with unusual radiographic features including severe platyspondyly, wide metaphyses, and fibular overgrowth, which are partially reminiscent of metatropic dysplasia. The diagnosis was clarified by molecular analysis of the DTDST gene, which revealed homozygosity for a previously undescribed mutation leading to a Q454P substitution in the 10th transmembrane domain of the DTDST sulfate transporter. Molecular analysis may be of particular value in such atypical cases.
authors.affiliation: Unité de Génétique Médicale, Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cytogénétique, Faculté de Médecine, Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon. megarban@dm.net.lb
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mégarbané
authors.forename: F A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Haddad
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Haddad-Zebouni
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Achram
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Eich
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Le Merrer
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Superti-Furga
mesh_terms: D027321:Anion Transport Proteins; D001692:Biological Transport; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D006720:Homozygote; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D010009:Osteochondrodysplasias / Q000145:classification / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000235:genetics*; D011859:Radiography; D000076988:Sulfate Transporters; D013431:Sulfates / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D027321:Anion Transport Proteins; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; C089651:SLC26A2 protein, human; D000076988:Sulfate Transporters; D013431:Sulfates