Patient with multiple congenital anomalies and decreased production and processing of procollagen in cultured fibroblasts

Am J Med Genet. 1991 Aug 1;40(2):133-7. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.1320400202.

Abstract

We report on a patient with hip and elbow dislocations, joint hyperextensibility, peculiar facial appearance, torticollis, cryptorchidism, unilateral hexadactyly, and other minor anomalies. Cultured cells from this patient produce less type I procollagen and have a slower rate of processing of type I procollagen to collagen in the culture medium. We think that the pattern of clinical anomalies constitutes a previously unreported syndrome with type I procollagen defect as a manifestation of the syndrome.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Multiple / metabolism*
  • Cell Line
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Child
  • Collagen Diseases / congenital*
  • Collagen Diseases / metabolism
  • Elbow Joint
  • Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
  • Hip Dislocation, Congenital / metabolism
  • Humans
  • Joint Dislocations / congenital*
  • Joint Dislocations / metabolism
  • Joint Instability / congenital*
  • Joint Instability / metabolism
  • Male
  • Procollagen / metabolism*
  • Syndrome

Substances

  • Procollagen