VPS33B mutation with ichthyosis, cholestasis, and renal dysfunction but without arthrogryposis: incomplete ARC syndrome phenotype

J Pediatr. 2006 Feb;148(2):269-71. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2005.10.005.

Abstract

Arthrogryposis-renal dysfunction-cholestasis (ARC) syndrome is a rare multisystem disorder first described in 1979 and recently ascribed to mutation in VPS33B, whose product acts in intracellular trafficking. Arthrogryposis, spillage of various substances in the urine, and conjugated hyperbilirubinemia define an ARC core phenotype, in some patients associated with ichthyosis, central nervous system malformation, deafness, and platelet abnormalities. We describe a patient with cholestasis, aminoaciduria, ichthyosis, partial callosal agenesis, and sensorineural deafness who, although homozygous for the novel VPS33B mutation 971delA/K324fs, predicted to abolish VPS33B function, did not exhibit arthrogryposis. The phenotypes associated with VPS33B mutation may include incomplete ARC.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Agenesis of Corpus Callosum
  • Arthrogryposis / genetics
  • Cholestasis / diagnosis*
  • Cholestasis / genetics
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / diagnosis
  • Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / genetics
  • Humans
  • Hyperbilirubinemia / etiology
  • Ichthyosis / diagnosis*
  • Ichthyosis / genetics
  • Infant
  • Kidney Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Kidney Diseases / genetics
  • Membrane Proteins / genetics
  • Mutation
  • Phenotype
  • Renal Aminoacidurias / diagnosis
  • Renal Aminoacidurias / genetics
  • Syndrome
  • Vesicular Transport Proteins

Substances

  • Membrane Proteins
  • VPS33B protein, human
  • Vesicular Transport Proteins