Williams-Beuren syndrome with brain malformation and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Brain Dev. 2014 Jun;36(6):523-7. doi: 10.1016/j.braindev.2013.07.002. Epub 2013 Jul 27.

Abstract

Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) is a multisystemic genetic disorder caused by a contiguous gene deletion at 7q11.23. We report a severely affected WBS patient with cerebral and cerebellar dysplasia as well as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Microarray comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) detected a deletion on 7q11.23 expanding from RP11-614D7 to RP11-137E8, which is a typical deletion in WBS. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report of a WBS patient with severe congenital central nervous system anomaly and progressive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The relationship between the genes deleted in WBS and a CNS anomaly plus hypertrophic cardiomyopathy requires further analysis.

Keywords: Cerebral and cerebellar dysplasia; Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Microarray comparative genomic hybridization analysis (aCGH); Williams syndrome.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Brain / abnormalities*
  • Brain / pathology
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / genetics
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / physiopathology*
  • Chromosome Deletion*
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7*
  • Comparative Genomic Hybridization
  • Echocardiography
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Microarray Analysis
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Williams Syndrome / genetics*
  • Williams Syndrome / pathology
  • Williams Syndrome / physiopathology