Collaborator: SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
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MAGEL2-Related Disorders: A study and case series
Abstract Pathogenic MAGEL2 variants result in the phenotypes of Chitayat‐Hall syndrome (CHS), Schaaf‐Yang syndrome (SYS) and Prader‐Willi syndrome (PWS). We present five patients with mutations in MAGEL2, including the first patient reported with a missense variant, adding to the limited literature. Further, we performed a systematic review of the CHS and SYS literature, assess the overlap between CHS,…
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A novel autosomal recessive alteration in the RYR1 gene in a patient with profound hypotonia
Homozygous and compound heterozygous mutations in the RYR1 gene have been reported to cause hypotonia, facial weakness, nemaline myopathy, respiratory insufficiency, swallowing disturbances, and ophthalmoplegia