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Gómez-López-Hernández Syndrome in a Child Born to Consanguineous Parents: New Evidence for an Autosomal-Recessive Pattern of Inheritance?

2014; Elsevier BV; Volume: 50; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2014.01.035

1873-5150

Vinícius Freitas de Mattos, Carla Graziadio, Rafael Fabiano Machado Rosa, René Lenhardt, Ronnie Peterson Marcondes Alves, Patrícia Trevisan, Giorgio Adriano Paskulin, Paulo Ricardo Gazzola Zen,

Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders

Gómez-López-Hernández syndrome is a rare genetic disease characterized by scalp alopecia with trigeminal anesthesia, brachycephaly or turribrachycephaly, midface retrusion, and rhombencephalosynapsis. We report the second case with this condition who presented with consanguineous parents.This boy was evaluated shortly after birth because of suspected craniosynostosis. He was the only son of healthy, consanguineous parents (his maternal grandmother and his paternal great-grandfather were siblings). His examination was notable for turribrachycephaly, prominent forehead, bilateral parietotemporal alopecia, midfacial retrusion, anteverted nostrils, micrognathia, low-set and posteriorly rotated ears, and short neck with redundant skin. Radiographs and tridimensional computed tomography scan of skull revealed lambdoid craniosynostosis. Brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed complete rhombencephalosynapsis, aqueductal stenosis, fused colliculi, abnormal superior cerebellar penducle, mild ventriculomegaly, and dysgenesis of the corpus callosum.Since its first description, 34 patients with this condition have been reported. The etiology of Gómez-López-Hernández syndrome is unknown. However, it is noteworthy that the patient in this report presented with a family history of consanguinity because this finding reinforces the possibility of an autosomal-recessive inheritance for this condition.