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Identical twins with mental retardation, dysarthria, progressive spastic paraplegia, and brachydactyly type E: a new syndrome or variant of Fitzsimmons-Guilbert syndrome?

Abstract
We report on concordantly affected female identical twins with mental retardation, dysarthria, progressive spastic paraplegia, and brachydactyly type E. The most similar condition reported is the syndrome described by Fitzsimmons and Guilbert in uniovular twins characterized by progressive spastic paraplegia, dysarthria, brachydactyly type E, and cone-shaped epiphyses. During the last 11 years a report of only one other patient with this syndrome has been published; hence, its phenotypic delineation may be only partial. Although our patients might expand the phenotypic spectrum of this syndrome, they may represent a new disorder.
AuthorsY Lacassie, M I Arriaza, M C Duncan, C Dijamco, C McElveen, P F Stahls 3rd
JournalAmerican journal of medical genetics (Am J Med Genet) Vol. 84 Issue 2 Pg. 90-3 (May 21 1999) ISSN: 0148-7299 [Print] United States
PMID10323731 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Topics
  • Abnormalities, Multiple (diagnosis)
  • Diseases in Twins (diagnosis)
  • Dysarthria (diagnosis)
  • Female
  • Foot Deformities, Congenital (diagnosis)
  • Hand Deformities, Congenital (diagnosis)
  • Humans
  • Intellectual Disability (diagnosis)
  • Middle Aged
  • Spastic Paraplegia, Hereditary (diagnosis)
  • Syndrome

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