title: Severe psychomotor delay in a severe presentation of cat-eye syndrome.
abstract: Cat-eye syndrome is a rare genetic syndrome of chromosomal origin. Individuals with cat-eye syndrome are characterized by the presence of preauricular pits and/or tags, anal atresia, and iris coloboma. Many reported cases also presented with variable congenital anomalies and intellectual disability. Most patients diagnosed with CES carry a small supernumerary bisatellited marker chromosome, resulting in partial tetrasomy of 22p-22q11.21. There are two types of small supernumerary marker chromosome, depending on the breakpoint site. In a very small proportion of cases, other cytogenetic anomalies are reportedly associated with the cat-eye syndrome phenotype. Here, we report a patient with cat-eye syndrome caused by a type 1 small supernumerary marker chromosome. The phenotype was atypical and included a severe developmental delay. The use of array comparative genomic hybridization ruled out the involvement of another chromosomal imbalance in the neurological phenotype. In the literature, only a few patients with cat-eye syndrome present with a severe developmental delay, and all of the latter carried an atypical partial trisomy 22 or an uncharacterized small supernumerary marker chromosome. Hence, this is the first report of a severe neurological phenotype in cat-eye syndrome with a typical type 1 small supernumerary marker chromosome. Our observation clearly complicates prognostic assessment, particularly when cat-eye syndrome is diagnosed prenatally.
authors: Unité de Génétique Médicale et Oncogénétique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Amiens-Picardie, 80054 Amiens Cedex, France ; Laboratoire de Cytogénétique et Biologie de la Reproduction, CECOS de Picardie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Amiens-Picardie, 80054 Amiens Cedex, France.
authors: Guillaume
authors: G
authors: Jedraszak
authors: Laboratoire de Cytogénétique et Biologie de la Reproduction, CECOS de Picardie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Amiens-Picardie, 80054 Amiens Cedex, France.
authors: Aline
authors: A
authors: Receveur
authors: Laboratoire de Génétique Médicale, Hôpital Jeanne de Flandre, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Lille, 59037 Lille Cedex, France.
authors: Joris
authors: J
authors: Andrieux
authors: Unité de Génétique Médicale et Oncogénétique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Amiens-Picardie, 80054 Amiens Cedex, France.
authors: Michèle
authors: M
authors: Mathieu-Dramard
authors: Laboratoire de Cytogénétique et Biologie de la Reproduction, CECOS de Picardie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Amiens-Picardie, 80054 Amiens Cedex, France.
authors: Henri
authors: H
authors: Copin
authors: Unité de Génétique Médicale et Oncogénétique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Amiens-Picardie, 80054 Amiens Cedex, France.
authors: Gilles
authors: G
authors: Morin
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