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anauxetic dysplasia

MIM.607095 9p21-p12

Autosomal recessive disease.

Synopsis

- severely disproportionate short stature
- hypertelorism
- hypodontia
- cervical subluxation
- J-shaped sella
- platyspondyly
- cervical subluxation
- hypoplastic ilia
- slanting acetabular roots
- rhizomelic shortening
- metaphyseal flaring
- small epiphyses
- brachydactyly
- delayed carpal bone age
- brachydactyly
- cervical cord compression
- mental retardation

Morphology

- Abnormal columnization of chondrocytes
- Dilated rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER)

Pathology

- germline mutations of RMRP in anauxetic dysplasia

  • The mitochondrial RNA-processing endoribonuclease is a ribonucleoprotein whose RNA component RMRP is a nuclear gene product.
  • The RNA component RMRP is the first RNA encoded by a single-copy gene in the nucleus and imported into mitochondria. The RNRP gene is untranslated, i.e., it encodes an RNA not a protein.
  • Mitochondrial RNA-processing endoribonuclease cleaves mitochondrial RNA complementary to the light chain of the displacement loop at a unique site.

See also

- allelic disorders

  • cartilage-hair hypoplasia (MIM.250250)
  • metaphyseal dysplasia without hypotrichosis (MIM.250460)
  • anauxetic dysplasia (MIM.607095)

References

- Thiel CT, Mortier G, Kaitila I, Reis A, Rauch A. Type and level of RMRP functional impairment predicts phenotype in the cartilage hair hypoplasia-anauxetic dysplasia spectrum. Am J Hum Genet. 2007 Sep;81(3):519-29. PMID: #17701897#