El-Moataz Bellah Ahmed N, Mostafa MI, Abdel-Hamid MS, Mehrez M. Abnormal dental phenotypes in GAPO syndrome: A descriptive study with a new
ANTXR1 variant & insights on teeth eruption.
Saudi Dent J 2024;
36:1209-1214. [PMID:
39286584 PMCID:
PMC11402001 DOI:
10.1016/j.sdentj.2024.07.001]
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Abstract
Objective
GAPO syndrome is usually diagnosed clinically owing to its characteristic features of growth retardation, alopecia, pseudoanodontia, and ophthalmic anomalies. Pseudoanodontia describes the failure of eruption of the two sets of teeth in these patients. Thus, the abnormal dental phenotype is the emergence of a set or part of a set of dentitions.
Purpose
This study reports the physical, oro-dental, and molecular findings of two new sibs with GAPO syndrome and provides a description of the dental phenotype of one of the patients reported before.
Materials & Methods
The patients were subjected to full medical history taking and three generations-pedigree construction. They were phenotyped according to the elements of morphology: Standard terminology series. After parental consents were acquired, molecular analysis was carried out for the two sibs (Patient 1 & 2).
Results
These included a new gene variant associated with erupted teeth in GAPO syndrome and new clinical features. A new classification for the terminologies of eruption disturbances was suggested.
Conclusion
The study asserts the importance of oro-dental examination and follow-ups as dental updates may occur in these cases.
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