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ORPHA:79113Malformation syndrome
Also called MFDM syndrome · Mandibulofacial dysostosis, Guion-Almeida type
What it is
A rare genetic, multiple congenital malformation syndrome characterized by malar and mandibular hypoplasia, microcephaly, ear malformations with associated conductive hearing loss, distinctive facial dysmorphism (with significantly overlap to Treacher Collins syndrome), developmental delay, and intellectual disability.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- <1 / 1 000 000
- Age of onset
- Neonatal
- Inheritance
- Autosomal dominant
- Classified as
- Malformation syndrome
Prevalence figures describe populations, not individuals, and are often estimates from a single study. Where the figure is an incidence or a birth prevalence, it says so.
Signs and symptoms
Very common80–99%
20- Abnormality of the antihelix
- Abnormality of the outer ear
- Absent tragus
- Cleft palate
- Delayed speech and language development
- Feeding difficulties
- Hypoplasia of the maxilla
- Intellectual disability
- Low-set ears
- Malar flattening
- Micrognathia
- Microtia
- Morphological abnormality of the middle ear
- Preauricular skin tag
- Secondary microcephaly
- Short nose
- Short stature
- Trigonocephaly
- Underdeveloped tragus
- Upslanted palpebral fissure
Common30–79%
7These ranges are how often a sign appears across everyone diagnosed, not a prediction for one person — most people have some of these and not others. Orphanet also records findings that are specifically absent in this disease; those are in the data but not listed here.
Gene
ICD-10 codes
ICD-10 has no distinct code for most rare diseases, so many are filed under the nearest available one. A shared code identifies the group, not this disease — the ORPHAcode above is what identifies it.
Related health topics
Reached through the ICD-10 categories this disease is filed under, so these describe the broader group rather than this disease specifically.
Cross-references
Orphadata Science: Free access data from Orphanet. © INSERM 1999. Data version 2026-06-23. Available under CC BY 4.0. This is a reference, not medical advice.
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