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Three brothers and two of their male first cousins were affected with a previously apparently undefined multiple congenital anomaly, mental retardation syndrome which was designated the FG syndrome and which consists of variable growth problems with a disproportionately large head, characteristic appearance and minor anomalies, imperforate anus, mild to severe mental retardation and congenital hypotonia; pyloric stenosis, hypoplastic left heart, generalized dilatation of the urinary tract, cutaneous syndactyly of third and fourth fingers, and severe craniosynostosis were seen each in 1 patient. Partial agenesis of the corpus callosum seen in 1 patient is suspected in another on the basis of EEG abnormalities. 1 boy died neonatally with congenital heart disease, and 2 others of pneumonia at 20 and 23 months. The FG syndrome is an X-linked recessive condition; heterozygotes appear grossly normal.
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Opitz, J.M., Kaveggia, E.G. Studies of malformation syndromes of man XXXIII: The FG syndrome. An X-linked recessive syndrome of multiple congenital anomalies and mental retardation. Z. Kinder-Heilk. 117, 1–18 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00439020
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Key words
- Multiple congenital anomaly/mental retardation (MCA/MR) syndrome
- Growth disturbances
- Increased headsize
- Hypotonia
- Imperforate anus
- Partial agenesis of corpus callosum
- Pyloric stenosis
- Generalized dilatation of urinary tract
- Hypoplastic left heart defect
- Syndactyly of toes and/or fingers
- Craniosynostosis
- X-linked inheritance