Oro-facio-digital syndrome type 2

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Classification according to ICD-10
Q87.0 Congenital malformation syndromes with predominant involvement of the face
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

The Oro-facial-digital syndrome type 2 or ( OFD II ) is a very rare genetic disease (Dysmorphiesyndrom) with a combination of deformities of hands and feet, face, upper lip column and hamartomas of the tongue and is one of the Oro-facial-digital syndromes .

Synonyms are: Mohr syndrome , Mohr-Claussen syndrome

The name refers to the authors of the first description from 1941 by the Norwegian human geneticist Lous Mohr (1886–1967) and a follow-up of the affected family in 1946 by the Norwegian geneticist O. Claussen .

The syndrome should not be confused with Mohr-Majewski syndrome .

Spread and cause

The frequency is given as less than 1 in 1,000,000, the inheritance is presumably autosomal - recessive . About 20 cases have been described so far. The etiology is not yet known.

Clinical manifestations

Clinical criteria are:

Differential diagnosis

Other types of orofacio-digital syndrome must be distinguished. The atrophy of the cerebellum is a key diagnostic criterion.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b Bernfried Leiber (founder): The clinical syndromes. Syndromes, sequences and symptom complexes . Ed .: G. Burg, J. Kunze, D. Pongratz, PG Scheurlen, A. Schinzel, J. Spranger. 7., completely reworked. Edition. tape 2 : symptoms . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich et al. 1990, ISBN 3-541-01727-9 .
  2. OL Mohr: A hereditary lethal syndrome in man. In: Avh. Norske Videnskad. Oslo Vol. 14, pp. 1-18, 1941
  3. O. Claussen: Et arvelig syndrome omfattende tungemissdannelse og polydaktyli. In: Nordisk Medicin Vol. 30, pp. 1147-1151, 1946.
  4. a b c Oro-facio-digital syndrome type 2. In: Orphanet (database for rare diseases).