1. Case report: sex reassignment surgery for Klinefelter syndrome
Zhaoji XIA ; Pengwu ZHOU ; Bailin PAN
Chinese Journal of Plastic Surgery 2018;34(8):668-670
Klinefelter syndrome is a congenital disease of chromosomal aberrations with a prevalence of 0.8%-2.0% in men, which mainly represented as absence of sexual characteristics such as postpubescent undeveloped or less developed testicular, feminine breast development. This article reports two Klinefelter syndrome patients with chromosome karyotype of 47, XXY from 2006 to 2016. Each has successively received series of sex reassignment surgery to improve their genital and secondary sexual characteristics based on their own preferences, satisfactory outcome is therefore achieved.
2.Clinical features and genetic analysis of a child with 3-methylglutenedioic aciduria type VII due to novel variants of CLPB gene.
Pengwu LIN ; Xuan FENG ; Shengju HAO ; Ling HUI ; Chuan ZHANG ; Bingbo ZHOU ; Lian WANG ; Jingyun SHI ; Qinghua ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Medical Genetics 2023;40(11):1377-1381
OBJECTIVE:
To explore the clinical features and genetic basis for a child with 3-methylglutaconic aciduria type VII.
METHODS:
A child who was diagnosed at the Gansu Provincial Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital on August 9, 2019 was selected as the study subject. Clinical data of the child, including urine gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, were collected. The child and her parents were subjected to whole exome sequencing.
RESULTS:
The child, a female neonate, had presented mainly with intermittent skin cyanosis, convulsions, hypomagnesemia, apnea, neutropenia after birth. Her urine 3-methylpentenedioic acid has increased to 17.53 μmol/L. DNA sequencing revealed that she has harbored compound heterozygous variants of the CLPB gene, namely c.1016delT (p.L339Rfs*5) and c.1087A>G (p.R363G), which were respectively inherited from her mother and father. Both variants were unreported previously. Based on the standards from the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG), the variants were respectively predicted to be pathogenic and likely pathogenic.
CONCLUSION
The child was diagnosed with 3-methylglutenedioic aciduria type VII. Discovery of the c.1016delT and c.1087A>G variants has enriched the mutational spectrum of the CLPB gene.
Female
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Humans
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Infant, Newborn
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Pregnancy
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Base Sequence
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Metabolism, Inborn Errors/diagnosis*
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Mutation
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Neutropenia/genetics*
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Sequence Analysis, DNA