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Smith-Kingsmore syndrome

The disorder is also namend MINDS syndrome which is the acronym of macrocephaly, intellectual disability, neurodevelopmental disorder, and small thorax. It is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by mutations of the MTOR gene.

Systematic

Hereditary malformations
Bohring-Opitz syndrome
Congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract
Inborn skeletal malformations
Smith-Kingsmore syndrome
MTOR
Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda

References:

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Lee JH et al. (2012) De novo somatic mutations in components of the PI3K-AKT3-mTOR pathway cause hemimegalencephaly.

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Baynam G et al. (2015) A germline MTOR mutation in Aboriginal Australian siblings with intellectual disability, dysmorphism, macrocephaly, and small thoraces.

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Mroske C et al. (2015) Germline activating MTOR mutation arising through gonadal mosaicism in two brothers with megalencephaly and neurodevelopmental abnormalities.

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Moosa S et al. (2017) Smith-Kingsmore syndrome: A third family with the MTOR mutation c.5395G>A p.(Glu1799Lys) and evidence for paternal gonadal mosaicism.

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Møller RS et al. (2016) Germline and somatic mutations in the gene in focal cortical dysplasia and epilepsy.

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