Abstract
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a nonprogressive, early-onset neurodevelopmental disorder affecting
∼2 to 3/1,000 children worldwide. It is characterized by movement/postural disabilities
accompanied by sensitive, perceptual, cognitive, communicational, behavioral, and
musculoskeletal perturbations. Many CP patients are thought to have genetic etiologies
overlapping those of other neurodevelopmental conditions. Herein, we reported a newly
discovered case (the 36th case to date) of a female patient (misdiagnosed with CP
until age 19) with the rare X-linked intellectual disability syndrome resulting from
an int22h1/int22h2-mediated Xq28 duplication. A microarray analysis revealed a ∼0.4
Mb duplication within the 154.1 to 154.6 Mb subregion of Xq28 (hg19, CRCh37), confirming
a diagnosis of the rare int22h1/int22h2-mediated Xq28 duplication intellectual disability
syndrome. Atypical T2 hyperintensities were also observed. This case report builds
upon the limited cohort of X-linked intellectual disability syndrome patients and
reiterates the growing observations pertaining to the phenotypic overlap between genetic
CP cases and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
Keywords
chromosomal anomaly - X-linked intellectual disability - chromosomal microarray analysis
- cerebral palsy - gene dosage