SLC39A13-related spondylodysplastic Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

What it is

A form of spondylodysplastic Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) due to variants in the SLC39A13 gene and characterized by the presence of thin and finely wrinkled skin of the hands and feet, hypermobile distal joints, characteristic facial features (downslanting palpebral fissures, mild hypertelorism, prominent eyes with a paucity of periorbital fat, blueish sclerae, microdontia or oligodontia), muscular hypotonia, associated with significant short stature of childhood-onset, ocular findings (myopia and keratoconus) and, more rarely, vascular complications. Mild radiographic changes were observed, among which platyspondyly is a useful diagnostic feature.

Key facts

Prevalence

<1 / 1 000 000

Age of onset

Neonatal

Inheritance

Autosomal recessive

Classified as

Clinical subtype

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

These 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.

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