Waardenburg anophthalmia syndrome
| Waardenburg anophthalmia syndrome | |
|---|---|
| Other names | Anophthalmia with limb anomalies |
 | |
| Specialty | Medical genetics |
| Symptoms | anophthalmia/microphthalmia with limb anomalies |
| Complications | Vision impairment |
| Usual onset | Birth |
| Duration | Life-long |
| Causes | Autosomal recessive inheritance |
| Prevention | none |
| Frequency | very rare, about 29 cases have been reported in medical literature from South America, Europe, and Western Asia. |
| Deaths | - |
Waardenburg anophthalmia syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder which is characterized by either microphthalmia or anophthalmia, osseous synostosis, ectrodactylism, polydactylism, and syndactylism.[1][2] So far (according to OMIM), 29 cases from families in Brazil, Italy, Turkey, and Lebanon have been reported worldwide.[3] This condition is caused by homozygous mutations in the SMOC1 gene, in chromosome 14.[4]
Discovery
[edit]This condition was first discovered in 1983, by Richiera-Costa et al., when they described two consanguineous Brazilian families with the symptoms mentioned above, out of the five children affected, one of them had unilateral anophthalmia and four of them had bilateral anophthalmia, combined with limb anomalies. The parents were consanguineous and weren't affected with the symptoms themselves, thus autosomal recessive inheritance was demonstrated and it was proposed this case was part of a novel syndrome.[5]
In 2011, Okada et al. and others found the genetic cause in 10 families with the disorder: a mutation in the SMOC1 gene in chromosome 14.[6][7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ RESERVED, INSERM US14-- ALL RIGHTS. "Orphanet: Microphthalmia with limb anomalies". www.orpha.net. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Anophthalmos with limb anomalies - About the Disease - Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center". rarediseases.info.nih.gov. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
- ^ "OMIM Entry - # 206920 - MICROPHTHALMIA WITH LIMB ANOMALIES; MLA". www.omim.org. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
- ^ "OMIM Entry - * 608488 - SPARC-RELATED MODULAR CALCIUM-BINDING 1; SMOC1". www.omim.org. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
- ^ Richieri-Costa, A.; Gollop, T. R.; Otto, P. G. (April 1983). "Brief clinical report: autosomal recessive anophthalmia with multiple congenital abnormalities--type Waardenburg". American Journal of Medical Genetics. 14 (4): 607–615. doi:10.1002/ajmg.1320140403. ISSN 0148-7299. PMID 6846395.
- ^ Okada, Ippei; Hamanoue, Haruka; Terada, Koji; Tohma, Takaya; Megarbane, Andre; Chouery, Eliane; Abou-Ghoch, Joelle; Jalkh, Nadine; Cogulu, Ozgur; Ozkinay, Ferda; Horie, Kyoji (2011-01-07). "SMOC1 is essential for ocular and limb development in humans and mice". American Journal of Human Genetics. 88 (1): 30–41. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.11.012. ISSN 1537-6605. PMC 3014372. PMID 21194678.
- ^ Abouzeid, Hana; Boisset, Gaëlle; Favez, Tatiana; Youssef, Mohamed; Marzouk, Iman; Shakankiry, Nihal; Bayoumi, Nader; Descombes, Patrick; Agosti, Céline; Munier, Francis L.; Schorderet, Daniel F. (2011-01-07). "Mutations in the SPARC-related modular calcium-binding protein 1 gene, SMOC1, cause waardenburg anophthalmia syndrome". American Journal of Human Genetics. 88 (1): 92–98. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.12.002. ISSN 1537-6605. PMC 3014360. PMID 21194680.
- ^ Rainger, Joe; van Beusekom, Ellen; Ramsay, Jacqueline K.; McKie, Lisa; Al-Gazali, Lihadh; Pallotta, Rosanna; Saponari, Anita; Branney, Peter; Fisher, Malcolm; Morrison, Harris; Bicknell, Louise (July 2011). "Loss of the BMP antagonist, SMOC-1, causes Ophthalmo-acromelic (Waardenburg Anophthalmia) syndrome in humans and mice". PLOS Genetics. 7 (7): e1002114. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002114. ISSN 1553-7404. PMC 3131273. PMID 21750680.