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SUBMITTER: Cundy T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8426531 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cundy Tim T Vincent Andrea A Robertson Stephen S
Bone reports 20210901
Brittle cornea syndrome is a rare recessively inherited disorder (a sub-type of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome) with a clinical presentation dominated by corneal fragility and deafness. There have been suggestions that it may also have a bone fragility phenotype, but there has been little detailed description. We describe two siblings with brittle cornea syndrome due to compound heterozygous mutations in <i>ZNF469</i> who had sustained ten or more fractures, the majority before the age of 15. When inves ...[more]