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Current Issue - July 2022, Volume 16, Issue No. 2

Official Journal of Malaysian Orthopaedic Association and ASEAN Orthopaedic Association

Novel TRPV4 Pathogenic Variant in Severe Metatropic Skeletal Dysplasia: A Case Report

Abstract

We report an eight-year-old girl with a novel homozygous TRPV4 gene pathogenic variant c.2355G>T p. (Trp785Cys) with mesomelic shortening, odontoid hypoplasia, multiple joint contractures, thoracolumbar kyphosis, pectus carinatum, halberd pelvis, and dumb-bell shaped long bones. The novel variant caused a severe recessive form of metatropic dysplasia.

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