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Three sibs, a boy and two girls, born to Moroccan consanguineous parents, were affected with a syndrome characterized by brittle hair, mental retardation, short stature, ataxia, and gonadal dysfunction. The hair in these three patients displayed the morphological and biochemical hallmarks of trichothiodystrophy (TTD). Gonadal function tests showed abnormal gonadotropic responses to LHRH, consistent with delayed puberty in the male and ovarian failure in both females. Comparison with previously reported cases of TTD associated with mental retardation suggests genetic heterogeneity, although specific biochemical markers are needed in order to answer this question.
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PMID:Trichothiodystrophy, mental retardation, short stature, ataxia, and gonadal dysfunction in three Moroccan siblings. 188 42

Trichothiodystrophy is characterized by sparse, short, sulfur-deficient hair. Numerous symptom complexes have been described in which the hair abnormality represents a constant feature. We report a boy with trichothiodystrophy, ichthyotic skin changes, onychodystrophy, chronic neutropenia, osteosclerosis, hypothyroidism, nystagmus, growth and mental retardation, and microcephaly, who developed a progressive encephalopathy with ataxia and optic atrophy at 2.5 years of age. In addition to a deficient cystine level identified on a hair sample, a disturbance in the composition of other amino acids was present. Although features were reminiscent of osteosclerosis, ichthyosis, brittle hair due to trichothiodystrophy, impaired intelligence, decreased fertility, and short stature (SIBIDS) and could represent a variant of this disorder, findings in our patient may reflect a new trichothiodystrophy symptom complex that carries a poor prognosis for survival beyond childhood.
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PMID:Trichothiodystrophy and associated anomalies: a variant of SIBIDS or new symptom complex? 834

In this Review, familial and sporadic neurological disorders reported to have an etiological link with DNA repair defects are discussed, with special emphasis placed on the molecular link between the disease phenotype and the precise DNA repair defect. Of the 15 neurological disorders listed, some of which have symptoms of progeria, six--spinocerebellar ataxia with axonal neuropathy-1, Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Down syndrome and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis--seem to result from increased oxidative stress, and the inability of the base excision repair pathway to handle the damage to DNA that this induces. Five of the conditions (xeroderma pigmentosum, Cockayne's syndrome, trichothiodystrophy, Down syndrome, and triple-A syndrome) display a defect in the nucleotide excision repair pathway, four (Huntington's disease, various spinocerebellar ataxias, Friedreich's ataxia and myotonic dystrophy types 1 and 2) exhibit an unusual expansion of repeat sequences in DNA, and four (ataxia-telangiectasia, ataxia-telangiectasia-like disorder, Nijmegen breakage syndrome and Alzheimer's disease) exhibit defects in genes involved in repairing double-strand breaks. The current overall picture indicates that oxidative stress is a major causative factor in genomic instability in the brain, and that the nature of the resulting neurological phenotype depends on the pathway through which the instability is normally repaired.
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PMID:Mechanisms of disease: DNA repair defects and neurological disease. 1734 92

DNA repair is involved in maintaining the stability of the genome and accurate sending of genetic information. DNA repair pathways remove many DNA damages induced by endo- and exogenous factors. There are several DNA repair pathways in human cells, including base or nucleotide excision system, homologous recombination system and non-homologous end joining. Mutation in DNA repair genes may results in rare genetic disorders, including Xeroderma pigmentosum, Cockayne syndrom, trichothiodystrophy, Nijmegen syndrome, ataxia teleangiectasia, Werner syndrome, Bloom syndrome, Rothmund-Thomson syndrome. These diseases may be associated with various visual disturbances. In this work we review we focus on human genetic diseases linked with mutations in DNA repair genes associated with visual impairment.
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PMID:[Ocular manifestations in hereditary diseases with defects in DNA repair]. 2534 96