Elisa Adele Colombo, Michele Valiante, Matteo Uggeri, Alessandro Orro, Silvia Majore, Paola Grammatico, Davide Gentilini, Palma Finelli, Cristina Gervasini, Pasqualina D'Ursi, Lidia Larizza
Two adult siblings born to first-cousin parents presented a clinical phenotype reminiscent of Rothmund-Thomson syndrome (RTS), implying fragile hair, absent eyelashes/eyebrows, bilateral cataracts, mottled pigmentation, dental decay, hypogonadism, and osteoporosis. As the clinical suspicion was not supported by the sequencing of RECQL4 , the RTS2-causative gene, whole exome sequencing was applied and disclosed the homozygous variants c.83G>A (p.Gly28Asp) and c.2624A>C (p.Glu875Ala) in the nucleoporin 98 ( NUP98 ) gene...
February 16, 2023: International Journal of Molecular Sciences