Two sibs with myoclonic epilepsy, congenital deafness, macular dystrophy, and psychiatric disorders
Author: Mégarbané A, Khalil G, Waked N, Rötig A, Caillaud C, Loiselet J.
Source:
American journal of medical genetics, 87(4), 289-293.
We present a family with four children born to second-cousin parents. Two of the
children had myoclonic epilepsy, congenital deafness, a dystrophic pattern of the
macular pigment epithelium, incomplete right bundle branch block, and psychiatric
disorders appearing after fever episodes. Results of all laboratory
investigations including mitochondrial DNA analysis were normal. Despite the fact
that this condition resembles one reported by Latham and Munro in 1937, it is
possible that we might be reporting on a new autosomal recessive syndrome.