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Al-Awadi SA, Farag TI, Naguib KK, Teebi AS, el-Khalifa MY, Marafie MJ, Issa MA, Mahfouz ES. Intestinal malformations and Down's syndrome in Arabs. J R Soc Med 2018; 80:61-2. [PMID: 2951521 PMCID: PMC1290648 DOI: 10.1177/014107688708000128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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We report two siblings who had jejunal atresia which we believe to be familial. The parents of these siblings were first cousins. The first child had jejunal atresia with mesenteric agenesis and ‘apple-peel’ configuration; the second child had jejunal atresia with a V-shaped mesenteric defect. Other reported cases of familial atresia of the small intestine are reviewed.
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During a 7-year-period (1980-1986) trisomy 21 was confirmed in 635 cases (257 males and 278 females). There were 611 cases of trisomy 21 (96.2%), 12 of different translocations (1.9%), 9 of mosaicism (1.4%), and 3 with nonclassical karyotypes (0.5%). The frequency of chromosome aberrations in our study is compared to that of major world-wide cytogenetic surveys comprising 17,738 Down syndrome cases. These surveys showed that regular trisomy 21 constitutes 92.9%, translocations 4.3%, mosaicism 2.2%, and nonclassical karyotypes 0.5%.
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- S A al-Awadi
- Kuwait Medical Gentics Centre, Maternity Hospital, Safat
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We describe 2 unrelated Bedouin girls who met the criteria for the diagnosis of Kenny-Caffey syndrome. The girls had some unusual features--microcephaly and psychomotor retardation--that distinguish the Kenny-Caffey syndrome profile in Arab children from the classical Kenny-Caffey syndrome phenotype characterized by macrocephaly and normal intelligence. The 2 girls did not harbor the 22q11 microdeletion (the hallmark of the DiGeorge cluster of diseases) that we previously reported in another Bedouin family with the Kenny-Caffey syndrome (Sabry et al. J Med Genet 1998: 35(1): 31-36). This indicates considerable genetic heterogeneity for this syndrome. We also review previously reported 44 Arab/Bedouin patients with the same profile of hypoparathyroidism, short stature, seizures, mental retardation and microcephaly. Our results suggest that these patients represent an Arab variant of Kenny-Caffey syndrome with characteristic microcephaly and psychomotor retardation. We suggest that all patients with Kenny-Caffey syndrome should be investigated for the 22q11 microdeletion. Other possible genetic causes for the Kenny-Caffey syndrome or its Arab variant include chromosome 10p abnormalities.
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Mubashir MA, Sabry MA, Farah S, Haseeb N, Quasrawi B, al-Busairi W, al-Dabbous R, al-Awadi SA, Farag TI. New syndromic entity of situs inversus totalis. Clin Dysmorphol 1999; 8:23-7. [PMID: 10327248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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A 22-year-old Bedouin female with MCA/MR has been recently ascertained. She showed profound mental retardation, proportionate short stature, facial dysmorphism, spastic quadreparesis, bilateral taliper equinovarus, brachydactyly, situs inversus totalis, and MRI findings of cerebellar/midbrain migration defects. The described phenotype represents a new syndromic situs inversus with a characteristic Facio-Cerebro-Skeleto-Cardiac phenotype.
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- M A Mubashir
- Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Ministry of Social Affairs, Halifax, Canada
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We describe a Libyan boy with an unusual phenotype of multiple congenital anomalies, including triophthalmia, dolichocephaly, porencephaly, cleft lip/palate, facial asymmetry, micrognathia, and VSD. The reported phenotype is likely to represent a new entity of non-chromosomal syndromic triophthalmia. Other possibilities are discussed.
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Sabry MA, Farag TI. Chromosome 15q11-13 region and the autistic disorder. J Intellect Disabil Res 1998; 42 ( Pt 3):259. [PMID: 9678411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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al-Dabbous R, Sabry MA, Farah S, al-Awadi SA, Simeonov S, Farag TI. The autosomal recessive congenital intrauterine infection-like syndrome of microcephaly, intracranial calcification, and CNS disease: report of another Bedouin family. Clin Dysmorphol 1998; 7:127-30. [PMID: 9571284 DOI: 10.1097/00019605-199804000-00009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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We describe a Bedouin family with the rare autosomal recessive infection-like syndrome of microcephaly, intracranial calcification and CNS disease that has so far been documented in only eight families including one from Kuwait. In the present family, the female proband had congenital microbrachycephaly, hypertonia, early-onset tonic-clonic seizures, a palpable liver and mild pulmonary stenosis. Follow-up examination of the girl identified delayed developmental milestones while head CT scan revealed partial agenesis of the corpus callosum, brain atrophy, dilated ventricles and scattered calcific foci in the caudate nuclei, the thalami, and the periventricular white matter. The possibility of intrauterine TORCH infection was excluded by the negative results of repeated immunovirology study and by the failure to recover viral inclusions in urine cultures. The proband had three apparently affected cousins with spasticity and CT findings of microcephaly and intracranial calcification. Other previously documented cases with the congenital intrauterine infection-like syndrome are reviewed.
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- R al-Dabbous
- Medical Genetics Centre, Maternity Hospital, Kuwait
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Redha MA, Krishna Murthy DS, al-Awadi SA, al-Sulaiman IS, Sabry MA, el-Bahey SA, Farag TI. De novo direct duplication 7p (p11.2-->pter) in an Arab child with MCA/MR syndrome: trisomy 7p a delineated syndrome? Ann Genet 1997; 39:5-9. [PMID: 9297445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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A 3-year-6-month old Lebanese female child with multiple congenital anomalies including, facial dysmorphism, prominent low set ears, micrognathia, anti-mongoloid palpebral fissures and psychomotor retardation was investigated. Her karyotype showed de novo 46, XX, dir dup (7)(p11.2-->pter). The phenotypic manifestations in dir dup (7p) cases are briefly reviewed. Our observations in combination with other similar cases suggest that 7p trisomy due to dir dup (7p) can be regarded as a defined chromosome syndrome.
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- M A Redha
- Medical Genetics Centre, Maternity Hospital, Kuwait
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Farah S, Sabry MA, Khuraibet A, Khaffagi S, Rudwan M, Hassan M, Haseeb N, Abulhassan S, Abdel-Rasool MA, Elgamal S, Qasrawi B, Al-Busairi W, Farag TI. Lissencephaly associated with cerebellar hypoplasia and myoclonic epilepsy in a Bedouin kindred: a new syndrome? Clin Genet 1997; 51:326-30. [PMID: 9212181 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1997.tb02482.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Clinico-radiological assessment of three mentally retarded members of a large Bedouin kindred showed lissencephaly, spastic paraparesis, myoclonic epilepsy and cerebellar hypoplasia. It seems that the familial association of lissencephaly/myoclonic epilepsy/cerebellar hypoplasia represents a new entity.
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- S Farah
- Neurology Department, Ibn Sina Hospital, Kuwait
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Tahseen K, Khan S, Uma R, Usha R, Al Ghanem MM, Al Awadi SA, Farag TI. Kenny-Caffey syndrome in six Bedouin sibships: autosomal recessive inheritance is confirmed. Am J Med Genet 1997; 69:126-32. [PMID: 9056548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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We are reporting on 16 children, in 6 unrelated sibships, born to healthy, consanguineous parents of Bedouin ancestry. Eleven of them were assessed clinically. All presented with marked growth retardation, craniofacial anomalies, small hands and feet, hypocalcemia, hypoparathyroidism, radiological evidence of cortical thickening of long bones with medullary stenosis, and absent diploic space in the skull. There was a history of 6 affected sibs dying in infancy with hypocalcemic convulsions. All cases show absence of macrocephaly and early psychomotor retardation. The present cases confirm the presence of clinical variability and co firm autosomal recessive inheritance of Kenny-Caffey syndrome.
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- K Tahseen
- Department of Pediatrics, Al-Jahra Hospital, Safat, Kuwait
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We describe a Bedouin boy with multiple congenital anomalies/mental retardation (MCA/MR). He has frontal bossing, ridged metopic suture, bilateral ptosis, right squint, depressed nasal bridge, small nose, anteverted nostrils, lobulated tongue, polydactyly of both hands, microphallus, hypoplastic scrotum, microtestes, dysgenesis of corpus callosum, and a Dandy-Walker variant. This phenotype overlaps both the Varadi-Papp syndrome (OFD VI) and Opitz trigonocephaly (C syndrome). This phenotypic overlap is discussed in light of the concept of splitting and lumping in genetic diseases.
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- M A Sabry
- Medical Genetics Centre, Maternity Hospital, Kuwait
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Marafie MJ, Temtamy SA, Rajaram U, al-Awadi SA, el-Badramany MH, Farag TI. Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome with dysgenesis of the corpus callosum in a Bedouin family. Am J Med Genet 1996; 66:261-4. [PMID: 8985483 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19961218)66:3<261::aid-ajmg4>3.0.co;2-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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We report on the first known Bedouin family with Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome (MIM 175700). The index patient and his father shared pre- and postaxial polysyndactyly, mild mental retardation, and corpus callosum dysgenesis. Their phenotypic findings were compared with reported cases of both Greig cephalopolysyndactyly (GCPS) and acrocallosal syndromes. This family represents the second report of the rare occurrence of dysgenesis of the corpus callosum in GCPS.
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- M J Marafie
- Kuwait Medical Genetics Centre, Psychological Medicine Hospital, Kuwait
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Sabry MA, Farag TI. Hand anomalies in fetal-hydantoin syndrome: from nail/phalangeal hypoplasia to unilateral acheiria. Am J Med Genet 1996; 62:410-2. [PMID: 8723073 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320620403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Sabry MA, Obenbergerova D, Al-Sawan R, Saleh QA, Farah S, Al-Awadi SA, Farag TI. Femoral hypoplasia-unusual facies syndrome with bifid hallux, absent tibia, and macrophallus: a report of a Bedouin baby. J Med Genet 1996; 33:165-7. [PMID: 8929957 PMCID: PMC1051846 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.33.2.165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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A male Bedouin baby with the clinical profile of femoral hypoplasia-unusual facies syndrome is described. The phenotype includes bilateral asymmetrical lower limb hypoplasia/aplasia with short remnants of both femora, absent right tibia, bifid right big toe, dysmorphic facies, thoracic/pelvic abnormalities, macrophallus, and bilateral cryptorchidism. This report re-emphasises the previously described rare association of femoral hypoplasia-unusual facies syndrome with preaxial polydactyly and suggests that the clinical spectrum of the syndrome could be stretched further to accommodate other unusual traits, for example, macrophallus and absent tibia.
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- M A Sabry
- Medical Genetics Centre, Maternity Hospital, Kuwait
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el-Badramany MH, Fawzy AR, Farag TI. Familial richner-Hanhart syndrome in Kuwait: twelve-year clinical reassessment by a multidisciplinary approach. Am J Med Genet 1995; 60:353-5. [PMID: 8546145 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320600502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Sabry MA, al-Saleh Q, al-Saw'an R, al-Awadi SA, Farag TI. Right upper limb bud triplication and polythelia, left sided hemihypertrophy and congenital hip dislocation, facial dysmorphism, congenital heart disease, and scoliosis: disorganisation-like spectrum or patterning gene defect? J Med Genet 1995; 32:555-6. [PMID: 7562971 PMCID: PMC1050551 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.32.7.555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A Somali female baby with right upper limb triplication, polythelia, left sided hemihypertrophy, congenital hip dislocation, facial dysmorphism, congenital heart disease, and scoliosis is described. It seems that the above described pattern of anomalies has not been reported before. The possible developmental genetic mechanism responsible for this phenotype is briefly discussed.
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- M A Sabry
- Kuwait Medical Genetics Centre, Sulibikhat
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We report a 27-year-old XY female who presented with abdominal pain due to hemoperitoneum from a ruptured abdominal mass. Gonadoblastoma overgrown by endodermal sinus tumor and dysgerminoma was detected. The risk of neoplasia in such cases is discussed.
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- A H Morsy
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Al-Jahra Hospital, Solibikhat, Kuwait
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Reardon W, Hockey A, Silberstein P, Kendall B, Farag TI, Swash M, Stevenson R, Baraitser M. Autosomal recessive congenital intrauterine infection-like syndrome of microcephaly, intracranial calcification, and CNS disease. Am J Med Genet 1994; 52:58-65. [PMID: 7977464 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320520112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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We present data on 10 patients from 5 families with a condition of microcephaly, intracranial calcification, and a clinical course resembling congenital TORCH infection. Repeatedly, negative TORCH investigations are a prerequisite for the identification of this disorder and the value of disturbed liver function and thrombocytopenia as aids to diagnosis is emphasised. Several similar families with recurrence of the disease in sibships are identified in the literature and the genetic implications of our observations are considered.
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- W Reardon
- Department of Pediatric Genetics, Hospital for Sick Children, London Hospital
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Farag TI. The newly recognised skeletogenital syndrome. J Med Genet 1994; 31:505. [PMID: 8071982 PMCID: PMC1049940 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.31.6.505-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Redha AA, Murthy DS, Kandil H, Farag TI, Usha R, al-Awadi SA, Jeryan LA, al-Nagdy K, el-Ghanem M. Partial trisomy of short arm of chromosome 8 (46,XY, inv dup (8) (p21-->pter) in a Bedouin child with multiple congenital anomalies and mental retardation. Indian J Pediatr 1994; 61:301-6. [PMID: 7960007 DOI: 10.1007/bf02752230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- A A Redha
- Kuwait Medical Genetics Centre, Maternity Hospital
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Al-Awadi SA, Farag TI, Murthy DS, El-Badramany MH, Al-Azemi MK, Qurton M. Mixed gonadal dysgenesis with structural anomalies of the Y chromosome. Ann Saudi Med 1994; 14:267-8. [PMID: 17586911 DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.1994.267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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- S A Al-Awadi
- Kuwait Medical Genetics Centre, Maternity Hospital, Sulaibikat, Kuwait, and Endocrinology Department, Mubarak Hospital, Kuwait
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Farag TI, Bastaki L, Marafie M, al-Awadi SA, Krsz J. Autosomal recessive congenital diaphragmatic defects in the Arabs. Am J Med Genet 1994; 50:300-1. [PMID: 8042677 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320500316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Farag TI, al-Awadi SA, el-Badramary MH, Aref MA, Kasrawi B, Krishna Murthy DS, el-Khalifa MY, Yadav G, Marafie MJ, Bastaki L. Disease profile of 400 institutionalized mentally retarded patients in Kuwait. Clin Genet 1993; 44:329-34. [PMID: 8131306 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1993.tb03910.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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In this preliminary report we summarize the results of a 4-year multidisciplinary systematic, etiological clinicogenetic survey of 400 institutionalized mentally retarded patients in Kuwait. All had an intelligence quotient below 50. A constitutional disorder, as the direct cause of the mental retardation, was found in 203 patients (50.75%)): a chromosomal abnormality in 37 (9.25%), Mendelian disorders in 137 (34.25%), MCA/MR in 22 (5.55%) and CNS malformations in 7 cases (1.75%). In 157 patients (39.35%) a pre-, peri or postnatal cause was ascertained. No etiological diagnosis was detected in 40 patients (10%). A detailed analysis of the "disease profile" is given and compared with the results of previous diagnostic genetic surveys among different institutionalized mentally retarded populations in Western and developing countries.
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- T I Farag
- Kuwait Medical Genetics Centre, Maternity Hospital Liaison Genetic Clinic
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Farag TI. Dietetic therapy of Richner-Hanhart syndrome. J R Soc Med 1993; 86:495. [PMID: 8078067 PMCID: PMC1294081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Farag TI, al-Awadi SA, el-Badramany MH, Usha R, el-Ghanem M. Second family with "apple peel" syndrome affecting four siblings: autosomal recessive inheritance confirmed. Am J Med Genet 1993; 47:119-21. [PMID: 8368241 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320470126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Farag TI, al-Awadi SA, Marafie MJ, Bastaki L, Murthy DS, al-Othman SA, Mohamed FM, Reda AA, Abul Hasan SJ, Reda MA. Clustering of cri du chat syndrome among the Bedouins. Am J Med Genet 1993; 46:347-8. [PMID: 8488884 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320460323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Farag TI, al-Awadi SA, Marafie MJ, Bastaki L, al-Othman SA, Mohammed FM, AlSuliman IS, Murthy DS. The newly recognised limb/pelvis-hypoplasia/aplasia syndrome: report of a Bedouin patient and review. J Med Genet 1993; 30:62-4. [PMID: 8423610 PMCID: PMC1016237 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.30.1.62] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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A Bedouin infant born to consanguineous parents and grandparents is reported. She had Müllerian aplasia and the phenotypic features of the limb/pelvis-hypoplasia/aplasia syndrome (MIM 276820). Phenotypic variability of this newly recognised syndrome is briefly discussed.
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- T I Farag
- Kuwait Medical Genetics Centre, Maternity Hospital, Sulibikhat
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Usha R, Uma R, Farag TI, Girish Y, al-Ghanim MM, al-Najdi K, al-Awadi SA, el-Badramany MH. Late diagnosis of phenylketonuria in a Bedouin mother. Am J Med Genet 1992; 44:713-5. [PMID: 1481837 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320440603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We report on the first case of phenylketonuria in a Bedouin woman with 3 children having the phenylketonuria embryofetopathy. Herein, we discuss briefly hazards of late diagnosis of maternal phenylketonuria.
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- R Usha
- Paediatric Department, Al-Jahra Hospital, Kuwait
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Yadav G, Farag TI, al Awadi SA, Sam T, Marafie MJ, Bastaki L, el Khalifa MY, Kasrawi B, Wahba RA. Aminoacidopathies among institutionalised mentally retarded in Kuwait. Clin Genet 1992; 42:212. [PMID: 1424246 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1992.tb03241.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Two male Arab sibs are reported with congenital heart disease and skeletal malformations. Other published case reports sharing some features in common with these brothers are considered. However, clinical and radiological features in these boys are distinct enough to represent a new cardioskeletal syndrome.
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- W Reardon
- Mothercare Department of Peadiatric Genetics, Institute of Child Health, London
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Five Bedouin sibs are described with Meckel-Gruber syndrome (MGS), an autosomal recessive disorder with multiple abnormalities. Each affected sib manifested only two of the three cardinal signs of MGS: occipital encephalocele and polycystic kidneys, lacking polydactyly. The phenotypic variability of the MGS pleiotropic gene is briefly discussed.
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- T I Farag
- Kuwait Medical Genetics Centre, Paediatric Department
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Farag TI, Teebi AS. The second family with Spahr-type metaphyseal chondrodysplasia: autosomal recessive inheritance confirmed. Clin Genet 1990; 38:237-9. [PMID: 2225533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Mahfouz ES, Issa MA, Farag TI, Naguib KK, al-Awadi SA, Schimke RN. Persistent Mullerian duct syndrome: report of two boys with associated crossed testicular ectopia. J Pediatr Surg 1990; 25:692-3. [PMID: 2359010 DOI: 10.1016/0022-3468(90)90367-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Persistent Mullerian duct structures and crossed testicular ectopia were found in two phenotypically normal, unrelated males, with 46,XY karyotype, during routine herniorrhaphy. In each case, the vascular supply to the ectopic testis originated from the appropriate ipsilateral side. The clinical significance and genetic implications of this rare association are discussed.
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- E S Mahfouz
- Department of Paediatric Surgery, Ibn Sina Hospital, Kuwait
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Murthy DS, Sundareshan TS, Farag TI, al-Awadi SA, al-Othman SA. Segregation of acrocentric chromosome association in familial dicentric Robertsonian translocation t(14p;22p), aneuploidy (trisomy-21) and heteromorphism. Indian J Exp Biol 1990; 28:511-5. [PMID: 2144840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The frequency and types of acrocentric chromosome association were quantitatively analysed in a Down syndrome child with unusual karyotype, 46, XX, -14, -22, t dic (14p;22p), +21, 21S+. Father and 4 sibs were heterozygous carriers for t dic (14p;22p). The variant 21S+ was inherited from the mother. The occurrence of translocation and trisomy in the same individual is extremely rare. Acrocentric chromosome association was analysed in this interesting family to understand the interrelationship of acrocentric chromosome association, Robertsonian translocation and heteromorphism, as possible predisposing factors for nondisjunction. Our findings suggest that acrocentric chromosome association is a heritable and nonrandom phenomenon. Heterozygous carriers for translocations and variants are likely to be at increased risk of nondisjunction. Long term family studies will enable to ascertain the causal-relationship of these factors more precisely.
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- D S Murthy
- Medical Genetics Centre, Maternity Hospital, Kuwait
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We report on 3 brothers with hypertelorism, hypospadias, and tetralogy of Fallot. Parents are first cousins once removed; the father has apparent hypertelorism. An apparently normal paternal uncle who is married to a second cousin also has a daughter with hypertelorism and tetralogy of Fallot. All similarly affected relatives have mild or borderline mental retardation. The combination of anomalies may represent a previously undescribed autosomal recessive disorder.
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- T I Farag
- Kuwait Medical Genetics Centre, Maternity Hospital
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We report an Arab sibship of two brothers with non-syndromic, congenital diaphragmatic defects (CDD). The first had an extensive, left, Bochdalek-type hernia and the second hemidiaphragmatic agenesis; these were verified by surgical exploration and necropsy respectively. The parents are healthy second cousins. Other reported discordant cases of CDD are briefly reviewed.
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- T I Farag
- Jahra Regional Liaison-Community Genetics Programme, Maternity Hospital, Kuwait
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el-Badramany MH, Farag TI, al-Awadi SA, Hammad IM, Abdelkader A, Murthy DS. Familial manic-depressive illness with deleted short arm of chromosome 21: coincidental or causal? Br J Psychiatry 1989; 155:856-7. [PMID: 2620216 DOI: 10.1192/bjp.155.6.856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A 35-year-old Arab lady and her mother, both with bipolar manic-depressive illness and 46,XX,21p-(pcen----pter), are reported. The clinical significance of this association is considered.
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Teebi AS, al-Saleh QA, Hassoon MM, Farag TI, al-Awadi SA. Macrosomia, microphthalmia, +/- cleft palate and early infant death: a new autosomal recessive syndrome. Clin Genet 1989; 36:174-7. [PMID: 2791331 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1989.tb03184.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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An Arab girl with macrosomia, severe microphthalmia and early infant death is reported. Four other sibs were similarly affected; three of them had median cleft palate. All five sibs showed respiratory infections in early life and died either unexpectedly or because of a documented overwhelming infection. Parental consanguinity and affected sibs of both sexes strongly suggest autosomal recessive inheritance in this apparently new syndrome.
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- A S Teebi
- Kuwait Medical Genetics Centre, Maternity Hospital
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Farag TI, al-Awadi SA, Yassin S, el-Kassaby TA, Jaefary S, Usha R, Uma R, Mady SA, Fakhr M, Mannae M. Anencephaly: a vanishing problem in Bedouins? J Med Genet 1989; 26:538-9. [PMID: 2769728 PMCID: PMC1015682 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.26.8.538-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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