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. 2021 Feb 4;16:65. doi: 10.1186/s13023-021-01708-5

Table 2.

Description of the rare conditions that were encountered

Rare disease category Specific rare disease Diagnosis < 3 years old Diagnosis between age 3–18 years old Age of diagnosis unknown
Cardiovascular number of patients: 9 Aortic stenosis X
Bicuspid aortic valve X
CC1CNA1c heart defect X
Coarctation of the aorta X
Congenital heart disease XX
Hypoplastic left heart X
Unbalanced AVSD X
WPW Syndrome X
Endocrine number of patients: 11 Addisons X X
Hypercalcaemia X
Hypospadias X
MRKH XXXXX
PMDS X
Pseudohypoparathyroidism X X
ENT number of patients: 1 Deaf in right ear X
Gastrointestinal number of patients: 9 Achalasia X
Alagilles X
Chronic pseudo obstruction of large colon X
Giant exomphalos X
Hirschprungs disease XXX
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia X
Tracheo oesophageal fistula X
Haematological/immune disorder number of patients: 6 Antiphospholipid X
Autoimmune neutropenia X
Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis X
`HSP X
Hypergammaglobulinaemia X
Lysosomal number of patients: 4 Batten disease CLN2 X X
MPS 1—Hurler syndrome XX
Metabolic number of patients: 2 Glycogen storage disease IX X
MCADD X
Musculoskeletal/dermatological number of patients: 22 Achondroplasia X
Albinism X
Arthrogyroposis X
Crouzon XXX
Epidermolysis bullosa X
Erythromelalgia XX
Fibular hemimelia X
Malignant infantile osteoporosis X
Mandibulofacial dystosis with microcephaly X
Marfan X
Mixed connective tissue disorder X XX
Popliteal pterygium syndrome X
Raynauds X
Sjogrens XX
Talipes X
Weaver syndrome X
Neurodevelopmental number of patients: 13 Brain AVM X
Brain injury X
Cornella de lange X XX
CTNNB1 syndrome X
Joubert syndrome X
PAK1 neurodevelopmental disorder X
Periventricular leukomalacia X
Rett syndrome X X
Riboflavin transporter deficiency X
William syndrome X
Neuromuscular number of patients: 7 Adems disease X
DMD X
M.E.R.R.F X
Small fibre neuropathy X
Spinal muscle atrophy type 1 X
Sturge Weber X
Worster drought syndrome X
Oncological number of patients: 8 ALL X
Brain tumour XX
Ewing sarcoma XX
Medulloblastoma X
Polycystic astrocytoma X
Retinoblastoma X
Ophthalmological number of patients: 1 Bilateral congenital cataracts X
Renal number of patients: 4 Bartter syndrome X
CKD X
Nephrogenic DI X
Nephrotic syndrome X
Respiratory number of patients: 1 NEH1 interstitial lung disease X
Syndrome number of patients: 37 Bardet Biedi syndrome X
Beckwith-wiedemann syndrome X
Chromosome 2 deletion X
Chromosome 7 partial deletion X
Chromosome 8 disorder X
Chromosome 8 disorder—short arm deletion, long arm duplication X
CLTC chromosome abnormality X
Deletion of 10p gene 13-15p X
Di George XX
Edwards/trisomy 18 X
Inverted duplication and deletion of 8p X
Mosaic ring 14 X
Mowat Wilson syndrome X
Noonan syndrome X X
Patau/trisomy 13 XX X
Prader Willi
Primary ciliary dyskinesia X X
Treacher Collins syndrome XX
Trichothiodystrophy X
Trisomy 14 XXX
Tuberose sclerosis XX X
`Turner syndrome X
Wolf-Hisrchhorn syndrome-9p X
1Q43 deletion X
16p11.2 micro deletion X
22q11.2 deletion syndrome X

The table below shows the 103 different rare conditions in the 114 patients with a formal diagnosis. Nine patients had more than one rare condition

ALL acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, AVM arteriovenous malformation, AVSD atrioventricular septal defect, CKD chronic kidney disease, CTLC cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, DI diabetes insipidus, DMD duchenne muscular dystrophy, HSP Henoch Schönlein purpura, MCADD medium chain acyl CoA dehydrogenase deficiency; MPS 1 mucopolysaccharidosis type 1, MRKH Mayer Rokitansky Kuster Hauser Syndrome, PMDS Persistent Mullerian Duct Syndrome, WPW Wolff–Parkinson–White