Young Hughes Syndrome

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Classification according to ICD-10
Q87.8 Other specified congenital malformation syndromes, not elsewhere classified
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

The Young-Hughes syndrome is a very rare congenital to the syndromic X-linked mental retardation scoring disease with the main features of mental retardation , hypogonadism , ichthyosis , obesity and short stature .

Synonym : X-linked intellectual disability-hypogonadism-ichthyosis-obesity-short stature syndrome

The name refers to the authors of the first description from 1982 by the doctors ID Young and HE Hughes.

distribution

The frequency is given as less than 1 in 1,000,000, inheritance is X chromosomal - recessive .

Clinical manifestations

Clinical criteria are:

Differential diagnosis

The independence and the differentiation from similar syndromes has not yet been clarified.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b c X-linked intellectual disability-hypogonadism-ichthyosis-obesity-short stature syndrome. In: Orphanet (Rare Disease Database).
  2. ^ A b I.D. Young, HE Hughes: Sex-linked mental retardation, short stature, obesity and hypogonadism: report of a family. In: Journal of mental deficiency research. Vol. 26, Part 3, September 1982, pp. 153-162, PMID 7175926 .
  3. SB Vasquez, DL Hurst, JF Sotos: X-linked hypogonadism, gynecomastia, mental retardation, short stature, and obesity-a new syndrome. In: The Journal of pediatrics. Vol. 94, No. 1, January 1979, pp. 56-60, PMID 758423 .
  4. ^ AE Chudley, RB Lowry, DI Hoar: Mental retardation, distinct facial changes, short stature, obesity, and hypogonadism: a new X-linked mental retardation syndrome. In: American journal of medical genetics. Vol. 31, No. 4, December 1988, pp. 741-751, doi: 10.1002 / ajmg.1320310404 , PMID 3239563 .