Table 2.
Major and minor symptoms of the Bardet-Biedl syndrome, marked for each patient.
| Symptoms | Patient ID/ occurrence of the features in patients | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Major features | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 | P6 | P7 | P8 |
| Retinal cone-rod dystrophy |
+ | |||||||
| Central obesity | + | + | + | + | + | + | ||
| Postaxial polydactyly | + | + | + | + | + | + | ||
| Cognitive impairment | + | + | + | + | + | |||
| Hypogonadism and genitourinary abnormalities1 | + | + | ||||||
| Kidney disease | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| Minor features | ||||||||
| Neurologic abnormalities | + | + | + | |||||
| Olfactory abnormalities | ||||||||
| Oral/dental abnormalities | + | + | ||||||
| Cardiovascular and other thoraco-abdominal abnormalities | + | |||||||
| Gastrointestinal abnormalities | + | |||||||
| Endocrine/metabolic abnormalities2 | + | |||||||
P - patient; 1-8 - numbers of the patients; 1 - in males: cryptorchidism, short scrotum, micropenis, and low testicular volume, suggesting the possibility of infertility1; in women - anatomical anomalies found were hypoplastic or duplex uterus, hypoplastic fallopian tubes and/or ovaries, septate vagina, partial or complete vaginal atresia, absent vaginal and/or urethral orifices, hydrocolpos/hydrometrocolpos, persistent urogenital sinus, and vesicovaginal fistula; 2 - metabolic syndrome, subclinical hypothyroidism, type II diabetes (T2DM), polycystic ovary syndrome.