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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 12.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Med Genet A. 2006 Jun 1;140(11):1208–1213. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.31222

TABLE II.

Adolescents and Adults With 6p25-pter Deletions

Case reports [Le Caignec et al., 2005] [Jalal et al., 1989] [Palmer et al., 1991] [Law et al., 1998; Davies et al., 1999b] [Mirza et al., 2004] Current case
Age (y) 15 21 18 32 201 36
Sex Female Female Female Male Female Female
Extent of deletion 6p25 8 Mb 6p23-pter 6p23-pter 6p24.3-pter 6.7 Mb 6p25.1-pter 6.57 Mb 6p25-pter 6.7 Mb
Mental retardation Severe Severe (Mild) learning difficulties Mild to moderate
Neurobehavioral phenotype Schizophrenia
Functioning Reduced Reduced Full time factory job Day program activities
Speech Delayed Delayed Delayed Severely delayed Slow No delay; mild articulation problems
Motor Delayed; hypotonia Delayed No delay or hypotonia
Structural brain anomalies Moderate atrophy; white matter changes
OFC +1 SD 2nd centile 90th centile Macrocephaly 75th centile
Height −1 SD <5th centile 9–25th centile 10th centile
Characteristic facies Yes Yes Yes Yes
Cardiac defect No Bicuspid aortic valve No
Anterior eye chamber anomaly Yes Yes; bilateral Yes Yes; bilateral
Vision Divergent strabismus Poor; divergent squint Divergent squint Normal; strabismus
Hearing deficit Bilateral conductive Profound; progressive sensorineural Conductive Progressive sensorineural, conductive
Myringotomy tubes Yes; bilateral Yes Yes; multiple
Genitalia Hypogonadism
Other Left mammary hypoplasia; hypodontia; hypoplastic malleus on CT scan Dental abnormalities; telangiectasia Prognathism; supranumerary nipple; clumsy gait Vasculitis; abdominal hernias; cleft uvula Perthes disease; dental abnormalities; pigmentary retinopathy Prognathism; gallstones; bilateral valgus deformity

Blank, not reported/not mentioned.

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Phenotypic findings from age 13 years; phenotypes with later onset would not be documented.