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Participant 108


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Female, age 3, with a skeletal disorder thought to be caused by two variants in the TRIP11 gene

Date of Report

Feb 15, 2019

Description

When the patient was born, she had a small chest, short arms and legs (disproportionate short limbs), and low muscle tone (hypotonia). X-rays showed that she had short ribs, short long bones, and differences in the bones in her back (vertebral and spinal abnormalities) and parts of her long bones (metaphyseal dysplasia). As she has grown, she continues to have short stature. She also has speech delay, gross motor delays, translucent teeth, rhizomelia (shortening of the upper limbs), mesomelia (shortening of the middle parts of the limbs), acromelia (shortening of bones in the hands and feet), and brachydactyly (short fingers and toes).

Researchers believe the patient’s condition may be caused by variants in the TRIP11 gene. Her condition may be a mild form of the condition associated with this gene, achondrogenesis 1A, which is normally a lethal condition in infancy. Research is ongoing to determine more precisely how the variants in TRIP11 may be causing to her symptoms.

Symptoms / Signs
  • Short stature (disproportionate short-limb short stature)
  • Skeletal abnormalities (skeletal dysplasia)
  • Small chest (thoracic hypoplasia)
  • Short bones in arms and legs (rhizo-meso-acromelic limb shortening)
  • Differences in facial features: midface retrusion, depressed nasal bridge, anteverted nares, thin upper lip vermilion
  • Translucent and yellow-brown color teeth
  • Inward curve of the spine (hyperlordosis)
  • Abnormality of the vertebrae (irregular vertebral endplates)
  • Abnormality of bones in pelvis (pelvic girdle bone morphology)
  • Abnormality of the hipbone (acetabulum)
  • Abnormality of the wide portion of the long bone (metaphyseal dysplasia)
  • Short fingers and toes (brachydactyly)
  • Speech delay
  • Motor delay (gross motor delay)
Current Treatments
  • Physical therapy
Prior Treatments
Considered treatments
Previously Considered Diagnoses
  • Achondroplasia
  • Mild form of spondylometaphyseal dysplasia, Sedaghatian type
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Genetic Variants of Interest

Clinicians and researchers are investigating the following genetic changes to see if they are causing the participant’s symptoms:

Gene
Inheritance Pattern
Position (hg19)
Transcript
DNA Change
Protein Change
Autosomal recessive
chr14:g.92472282C>A & g.92469762C>A
NM_004239.3
c.2038G>T & c.4557+1G>T
p.Glu680Ter & N/A
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