A Syrian patient with Steel syndrome due to compound heterozygous COL27A1 mutations with colobomata of the eye.

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The joint occurrence of short stature, congenital dislocation of the hip, carpal coalition, dislocation of the radial head, cavus deformity, scoliosis, and vertebral anomalies was first described in 1993 by Steel et al. (OMIM #615155) in 23 children from Puerto Rico. The condition is caused by a deficient matrix protein, collagen type XXVII alpha 1 chain, due to bi-allelic loss of function mutations in the gene...

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