AOCCN2017

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[P2-136~192] Poster Presentation 2

Fri. May 12, 2017 10:00 AM - 3:40 PM Poster Room B (1F Argos F)

[P2-190] Clinical and genetic features of Schwartz-Jampei syndrome in a Chinese child: A follow up and literature review

Dai Lifang (Department of neurology, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China)

[Introduction] To investigate the clinical and genetic features of a Chinese girl with Schwartz-Jampel syndrome (sJs).
[Methodology] Reports on Schwartz-Jampel syndrome published until November of 2016 were searched and the clinical and genetic characteristics of reported case were summarized.
[Results] At 8 months after birth,the girl showed myotonia. As growing up, she had a dull facial expression,rigid lips and could not fully open her mouth,a micromandible,low-set and prominent ears,systemic muscle rigidity,there were muscular nodes formation on the limbs and gait stiffness.She had high level of creatine kinase and atlanto-axial joint subluxation on cervical CT reconstruction.She also had spontaneous myotonia-like discharges on needle eleetromyography(NEMG).X-ray of limbs showed metaphyseal dysplasia.The patient was treated with neurologic rehabilitation and carbamazepine.The myotonia at the last follow-up at her 9 years 4 months of age was the same as at the onset.On her HSPG2 gene.two heterozygous mutations c.10776delT on exon 78 and C.5702-5G>A on intron 45 were found.This is the first Chinese patient diagnosised as Schwartz-Jampel syndrome with HSPG2 gene mutations, while 8 reports were found in English literature.The total 36mutations were known in reviewed reports.which included eleven deletion or insertion.twelve splice site,ten missense,and three nonsense mutations.
[Conclusions] Schwartz-Jampel syndrome is a rare autosomal-recessive hereditary disease appears to be slowly progressive,in which distinctive clinical features were induced by HSPG2 gene mutation.This is the first report of Schwartz-Jampel syndrome of which genetic mutations was identified in a Chinese child reported by us before.