PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Jobling, Rebekah AU - Stavropoulos, Dimitri James AU - Marshall, Christian R AU - Cytrynbaum, Cheryl AU - Axford, Michelle M AU - Londero, Vanessa AU - Moalem, Sharon AU - Orr, Jennifer AU - Rossignol, Francis AU - Lopes, Fatima Daniela AU - Gauthier, Julie AU - Alos, Nathalie AU - Rupps, Rosemarie AU - McKinnon, Margaret AU - Adam, Shelin AU - Nowaczyk, Malgorzata J M AU - Walker, Susan AU - Scherer, Stephen W AU - Nassif, Christina AU - Hamdan, Fadi F AU - Deal, Cheri L AU - Soucy, Jean-François AU - Weksberg, Rosanna AU - Macleod, Patrick AU - Michaud, Jacques L AU - Chitayat, David TI - Chitayat-Hall and Schaaf-Yang syndromes:a common aetiology: expanding the phenotype of <em>MAGEL2</em>-related disorders AID - 10.1136/jmedgenet-2017-105222 DP - 2018 May 01 TA - Journal of Medical Genetics PG - 316--321 VI - 55 IP - 5 4099 - http://jmg.bmj.com/content/55/5/316.short 4100 - http://jmg.bmj.com/content/55/5/316.full SO - J Med Genet2018 May 01; 55 AB - Background Chitayat-Hall syndrome, initially described in 1990, is a rare condition characterised by distal arthrogryposis, intellectual disability, dysmorphic features and hypopituitarism, in particular growth hormone deficiency. The genetic aetiology has not been identified.Methods and results We identified three unrelated families with a total of six affected patients with the clinical manifestations of Chitayat-Hall syndrome. Through whole exome or whole genome sequencing, pathogenic variants in the MAGEL2 gene were identified in all affected patients. All disease-causing sequence variants detected are predicted to result in a truncated protein, including one complex variant that comprised a deletion and inversion.Conclusions Chitayat-Hall syndrome is caused by pathogenic variants in MAGEL2 and shares a common aetiology with the recently described Schaaf-Yang syndrome. The phenotype of MAGEL2-related disorders is expanded to include growth hormone deficiency as an important and treatable complication.