Clinical case of distal arthrogryposis in combination with epilepsy due to an unbalanced translocation

Abstract

The clinical case of a patient with congenital contractures of the lower and upper limbs, face, seizures, facial dysmorphias, motor disorders and psychomotor development delay is presented. The proband with Freeman–Sheldon syndrome had no mutations in genes associated with distal arthrogryposis. Chromosomal microarray analysis revealed terminal duplication of the long arm of chromosome 9 and terminal microdeletions of the short arm of chromosome 20 – 46,XX.arr[hg38]9q33.3q34.3 (127016168_138124666) x3,20p13 (259113_1003183)x1 in the de novo status. This clinical observation demonstrates an opportunity of using innovative molecular cytogenetic technologies in the search for disease-related genetic causes in the absence of mutations detected by whole exome sequencing.

Keywords

• distal arthrogryposis
• freeman–sheldon syndrome
• molecular karyotyping