Article
Adult Chinese twins with Kenny-Caffey syndrome type 2: A potential age-dependent phenotype and review of literature.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Feb 2021
Cheng Shirley S W, Chan Pui Kwan Joyce, Luk Ho-Ming, Mok Myth Tsz-Shun, Lo Ivan F M
Abstract excerpt
Kenny-Caffey syndrome (KCS) type 2 (OMIM 127000) is a rare syndromic cause of hypoparathyroidism which is characterized by proportionate short stature, long bone abnormalities, delayed closure of anterior fontanelle, eye abnormalities, and normal intelligence. It is caused by variants in FAM111A (NM_001942519.1). In this review, we reported the first Chinese patients, a pair of monozygotic twins, with genetically...
Topics
- Abnormalities, Multiple
- Adult
- China
- Dwarfism
- Eye Abnormalities
- Female
- Humans
- Hyperostosis, Cortical, Congenital
- Hypocalcemia
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype
- Receptors, Virus
- Twins
