title: A newly recognized autosomal recessive syndrome with short stature and oculo-skeletal involvement.
abstract: This report describes a young girl and her cousin presenting with postnatal short stature, strabismus, photophobia, retinitis pigmentosa, short neck, rhizomelic shortening of the long bones, short and slightly bowed humeri with prominent deltoid tuberosities, short and wide ribs and clavicles, dorso-lumbar scoliosis, biconcave vertebral bodies of the thoraco-lumbar spine, and narrowed lumbar canal. In addition, in the girl there were amelogenesis imperfecta of the hypomaturation type, and the radiographs showed short distal ulnae, sloping epiphyses of the radii, short femoral necks, and slightly flat uncovered femoral heads. The children's parents are first cousins. Differential diagnoses are discussed and the possibility of a newly recognized oculo-skeletal syndrome is raised.
authors.affiliation: Unité de Génétique Médicale, Faculté de Médecine, Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon. megarbane@usj.edu.lb
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mégarbané
authors.forename: Ismat
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ghanem
authors.forename: Naji
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Waked
authors.forename: Fernand
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dagher
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000235:genetics*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001848:Bone Diseases, Developmental / Q000235:genetics; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000002:abnormalities*; D003241:Consanguinity; D005124:Eye Abnormalities / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D005808:Genes, Recessive; D006130:Growth Disorders / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010375:Pedigree; D010641:Phenotype; D012160:Retina / Q000002:abnormalities; D013577:Syndrome