Published in:
01-06-2020 | Intellectual Disability | Scientific Letter
A New Pathogenic Variant of CAKUTHED Diagnosed Based on Intellectual Disability
Authors:
Shinichiro Morichi, Shinji Suzuki, Akiko Kasuga, Yu Ishida, Gaku Yamanaka, Yasuyo Kashiwagi, Hisashi Kawashima
Published in:
Indian Journal of Pediatrics
|
Issue 6/2020
Login to get access
Excerpt
To the Editor: Congenital Anomalies of Kidney and Urinary Tract syndrome with or without Hearing loss, abnormal Ears or Developmental delay (CAKUTHED) is characterized by facial dysmorphology and external ear anomalies in addition to renal lesions [
1]. This disease is characterized with haploinsufficiency of the
PBX-1 (Pre-B cell leukemia homeobox) gene, which may be involved in its etiology [
2]. Its incidence is unclear, and no case report on it has been published in Japan. …