Table 2.
Patient | Age | Sex | Variant | Age at sitting | Age at walking | Verbal skills | Muscle tone | Additional neurological findings | Vision | Seizure | Abnormal behavior | ADD/ADHD | Brain MRI | Renal or urogenital issues | Gl |
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1 | 30 mo | M | c.191A>C p.Lys64Thr; | 18 mo | Cannot walk on own, able to stand without support | Nonverbal; able to communicate with sign language | Hypotonia | Coordination issues; insensitivity/decreased sensitivity to pain; fine and gross motor difficulties | N/A | None | Moderate eye contact; did not smile until 11 mo old | N/A | N/A | Small penis | History of poor weight gain |
2 | 24 yo | F | c.244delG, p.Val82TrpfsX50 | 9 mo | 2 yo | Talked at 9 mo; Full sentences, normal mild articulation problems | Hypotonia | None | Strabismus, surgically repaired | None | Autistic features; tics; hallucinations (auditory and visual); emotional fragility; self- injurious behavior; hair pulling | No | Normal | Normal | Normal |
3 | 10 yo | F | c.471C>A, p.His157Gln | 1 yo | 3 yo | Talked at 5 yo; normal vocabulary for age with articulation differences | Hypotonia | Fine motor difficulties; decreased pain sensitivity | Strabismus | None | Autism; tantrums and melt-downs | Hyperactivity | Normal | Vesicostomy surgery for vesicoureteral reflux and poor bladder emptying; left renal duplication; urine retention with neurogenic bladder, needs nocturnal catheter | Normal |
4 | 11 yo | F | c.486-1G>A, IVS5-1G>A | N/A | Cannot walk on own, needs assistance or walker | Nonverbal, no words but hums tunes | Hypotonia | Muscle weakness; ataxic gait | Strabismus, surgically repaired | None | Autistic features; rubs face on hard objects to point of bruising | No | Vermis hypoplasia | Normal | Constipation; requires G- tube feeds; takes only baby foods orally |
5 | 11 yo | F | c.616C>T, p.Arg206X | 4 mo | 14 mo; Wears leg braces | Talked at 10 mo; Articulation defect | Hypotonia | Hyporeflexia or difficult to elicit DTRs; mild dysmetria and gait incoordination; inconsistent sensory exam, mild proximal muscle weakness | Refractive error | None | Autism; oppositional defiant disorder | ADHD | Small schizencephalic cleft in right temporal lobe and delayed myelination at 2 yo, later resolved | History of UTIs and hydronephrosis, resolved with growth | Excess weight gain, BMI 33.5 (≫95th percentile) |
6 | 15 mo | M | c.626G>A p.Arg209Gln | 9 mo | Cannot walk at 12 mo | Babbling at 8 mo; No clear first words at 12 mo | Hypotonia | Muscle weakness; ataxic gait | Strabismus | None | Some eye contact, but no social smile | N/A | Curvilinear tract-like signal abnormality in left frontal cerebral white matter; protuberance of right optic papillae | Small penis; testes high in scrotum | Normal |
7 | 4 yo | F | c.1402_1414del13, p.Thr464ProfsX10 | 8 mo | 2 yo | Talked at 2 yo; Speaking in full sentences at 4 yo | Hypertonia in hips | Muscle weakness; ataxic gait | Normal | None | Oral fixation, awakens at night | No | Normal | Recurrent urinary tract infections | Normal |
See Supplemental Table S1 for additional details of clinical presentations.
yo, years old; ADD, attention deficit disorder; ADHD attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; N/A, not available.