We describe two patients with microdeletion 1p35.2, intrauterine growth retardation, small stature, hypermetropia, hearing impairment and developmental delay. Both patients have long, myopathic facies, with fine eyebrows, small mouths and micrognathia. We postulate a role for the histone deacetylase HDAC1 in the facial phenotype and suggest that deletion of KPNA6 may prevent transmission of the 1p35.2 deletion from affected girls to any offspring through impaired zygotic genome activation.
Keywords: HDAC1 histone deacetylase; deletion 1p35.2; human; karyopherin alpha 6 (importin alpha 7).
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