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GENATLAS PHENOTYPE
last update : 29-08-2023
Symbol DIMBE
Location 1q25.3
Name DD/ID with microcephaly, brain anomalies, refractory epilepsy
Corresponding gene DHX9
Main clinical features
  • developmental delay and/or intellectual disability; cognitive impairment ranged from autism spectrum disorder with speech delay and learning disabilities but neurotypical intelligence
  • axial hypotonia and dysmorphic features, with ear abnormalities (low-set, posteriorly rotated ears; small ears with overfolded superior helices; and thick helices), hypertelorism, micrognathia, short downslanted palpebral fissures, a thick upper lip, a short philtrum, midface hypoplasia, and macrodontia
  • digital anomalies, seizures and drug-resistant epilepsy
  • MRI was abnormal often with white-matter volume loss with enlargement of the ventricles, thinning of the corpus callosum, and cerebral and cerebellar atrophy
  • also short stature, and ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy
  • Genetic determination autosomal dominant
    Function/system disorder neurology
    mental retardation
    Type disease
    Remark(s)