© 2002 Journal of Medical Genetics
LETTER TO JMG
Report of a new case of "genitopatellar" syndrome which challenges the importance of absent patellae as a defining feature
1 Department of Medical Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2 Division of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr L Armstrong, Department of Medical Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8L1;
liarmstrong@cheo.on.ca
Keywords: corpus callosum agenesis; genital; genitopatellar syndrome; renal cysts
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In a recent paper, Cormier-Daire et al1 proposed a new condition, "genitopatellar syndrome". They highlighted the association of abnormal patellae, genital and renal anomalies, dysmorphic features, and mental retardation in seven children (including two sets of sibs), and in a child previously reported by Goldblatt et al.2 They suggested probable autosomal recessive inheritance and attributed the observed predominance of males among reported patients to the easier recognition of genital abnormalities in males.
We report a 3 month old male patient who was born to non-consanguineous parents. His adult father functions intellectually at approximately the grade 3 level; the aetiology of his learning difficulties is not known and he had no congenital anomalies. One of the patient’s paternal half brothers is autistic. Other sibs and half sibs are healthy. There were no known teratogenic exposures. At the 20 week prenatal ultrasound, hydronephrosis was noted, and at 25 weeks’ gestation renal
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