Facial dysmorphism associated with distinctive spine abnormalities in a girl and her mother: novel syndromic association

Clin Dysmorphol. 2011 Oct;20(4):182-186. doi: 10.1097/MCD.0b013e328349bc9b.

Abstract

Facial dysmorphism associated with distinctive spine abnormalities has been encountered in a girl and her mother. A three-dimensional reformatted spinal computed tomography scan showed a combination of distinctive abnormalities such as failure of anterior formation of the vertebral bodies, malsegmentation, and Forestier disease. Mutations were not found in the GDF6 gene. We describe a hitherto undescribed autosomal dominant entity.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Multiple / diagnostic imaging*
  • Abnormalities, Multiple / genetics
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Face / abnormalities*
  • Female
  • Genes, Dominant
  • Growth Differentiation Factor 6 / genetics
  • Humans
  • Karyotyping
  • Phenotype
  • Radiography
  • Spine / abnormalities*
  • Spine / diagnostic imaging
  • Syndrome

Substances

  • GDF6 protein, human
  • Growth Differentiation Factor 6