Trisomy 8p syndrome

What it is

Trisomy 8p is a rare chromosomal anomaly syndrome, resulting from the partial duplication of the short arm of chromosome 8, with highly variable phenotype ranging from no dysmorphic features and only mild intellectual disability to patients with severe developmental delay, neonatal hypotonia, short stature, profound intellectual disability, mild dysmorphic features (e.g. mild ptosis, hypertelorism, down-slanting palpebral fissures, broad nasal bridge, short, prominent philtrum, abnormal dentition) and structural brain abnormalities. Autism, epilepsy, and spastic paraplegia have also been reported.

Key facts

Prevalence

1-9 / 100 000 (at birth)

Age of onset

Antenatal, Neonatal

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

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.

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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