American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A (2020)
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Identifier
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10.1002/ajmg.a.61760
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https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/176697
Abstract
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Knobloch Syndrome (KS) is a rare autosomal recessive hereditary disease. Despite its clinical heterogeneity, it is characterized by vitreoretinal degeneration and high myopia, with or without occipital skull defects. It is caused by mutations in theCOL18A1gene, which codifies for collagen XVIII, present in retina and vascular endothelium. Since the first description of the disease by doctors Knobloch and Layer in 1972, over 100 cases and 20 pathogenic or likely pathogenic mutations have been reported. We present the case of a child born from a consanguineous couple in Chile with congenital high myopia and dysmorphisms without an occipital skull defect. Whole exome sequencing analysis revealed an inherited homozygous variant inCOL18A1, c.4224_4225delinsC, p.Pro1411Leufs*35.