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. 2021 May 25;9:98. doi: 10.1186/s40478-021-01201-x

Table 2.

Summary of known congenital and developmental disorders caused by short tandem repeat expansions.

Adapted from Khristich and Mirkin [76]

Phenotype (OMIM #) Gene Motif Pathogenic repeat number Location (hg38) References

BPES

(#110100)

FOXL2 GCG 22–24 Exon chr3 138946022 138946062 [116]

CCHS

(#209880)

PHOX2B GCG 24–33 Exon chr4 41745976 41746022 [7]

DBQD2

(#615777)

XYLT1 GGC 100–800 5’ Region chr16 17470869 17470967 [86]

FECD3

(#613267)

TCF4 TGC  > 50 Intron chr18a 55222184a 55635956a [167]

GDPAG

(#618412)

GLS GCA  > 300 5’ Region chr2 190880873 190880920 [159]

HFG

(#140000)

HOXA13 GCG 24–26 Exon chr7 27199827 27199967 [50]

HPE5

(#609637)

ZIC2 GCG 25 Exon chr13 99985449 99985494 [17]

HSAN8

(#616488)

PRDM12 GCG 18–19 Exon chr9 130681606 130681641 [23]

SPD1

(#186000)

HOXD13 GCG 22–29 Exon chr2 176093058 176093099 [2]

XLMR

(#300123)

SOX3 GCG 15–26 Exon chr3 181712415 181712456 [89]

BPES, blepharophimosis, epicanthus inversus, and ptosis; CCHS, congenital central hypoventilation syndrome; DBQD2, Desbuquois dysplasia 2; FECD3, Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy 3; GDPAG, global developmental delay, progressive ataxia, and elevated glutamine; HFG, hand-foot-genital syndrome; HPE5, holoprosencephaly 5; SPD1, synpolydactyly 1; XLMR, x-linked mental retardation

aLocation of entire gene listed