Identification of mutations ends diagnostic odyssey and has prognostic implications for patients with presumed Joubert syndrome.
(2021) Brain communications — Vol. 3, n° 3, p. fcab163 (2021)
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Sayer, John A 
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- Paediatric neurology syndromes are a broad and complex group of conditions with a large spectrum of clinical phenotypes. Joubert syndrome is a genetically heterogeneous neurological ciliopathy syndrome with molar tooth sign as the neuroimaging hallmark. We reviewed the clinical, radiological and genetic data for several families with a clinical diagnosis of Joubert syndrome but negative genetic analysis. We detected biallelic pathogenic variants in , including novel alleles, in each of the four cases we report, thereby establishing a firm diagnosis of Poretti-Boltshauser syndrome. Analysis of brain MRI revealed cerebellar dysplasia and cerebellar cysts, associated with Poretti-Boltshauser syndrome and the absence of typical molar tooth signs. Using large UK patient cohorts, the relative prevalence of Joubert syndrome as a cause of intellectual disability was 0.2% and of Poretti-Boltshauser syndrome was 0.02%. We conclude that children with congenital brain disorders that mimic Joubert syndrome may have a delayed diagnosis due to poor recognition of key features on brain imaging and the lack of inclusion of on molecular genetic gene panels. We advocate the inclusion of genetic analysis on all intellectual disability and Joubert syndrome gene panels and promote a wider awareness of the clinical and radiological features of these syndromes.
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Powell, L., Olinger, E., Wedderburn, S., Ramakumaran, V. S., Kini, U., Clayton-Smith, J., Ramsden, S. C., Rice, S. J., Barroso-Gil, M., Wilson, I., Cowley, L., Johnson, S., Harris, E., Montgomery, T., Bertoli, M., Boltshauser, E., & Sayer, J. A. (2021). Identification of mutations ends diagnostic odyssey and has prognostic implications for patients with presumed Joubert syndrome. Brain communications, 3(3), fcab163. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcab163 (Original work published 2021)