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Last uploaded: January 16, 2025
Id http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/723367005
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Preferred Name

MACS syndrome

Definitions
A very rare inherited connective tissue disorder with characteristics of macrocephaly, sparse scalp hair, soft redundant and hyperextensible skin, joint hypermobility, and scoliosis. Patients have progressive facial coarsening with downslanted palpebral fissures, upper eyelid fullness/infraorbital folds, thick/everted vermillion, gingival overgrowth and abnormal position of the teeth. Rare manifestations such as abnormal high-pitched voice, bronchiectasis, hypergonadotropic hypergonadism and brachydactyly have also been reported. Caused by homozygous mutation in the RIN2 gene on chromosome 20p11.
Synonyms
Tall forehead, sparse hair, skin hyperextensibility, scoliosis syndrome
Macrocephaly, alopecia, cutis laxa, scoliosis syndrome (disorder)
Macrocephaly, alopecia, cutis laxa, scoliosis syndrome
MACS (macrocephaly, alopecia, cutis laxa, scoliosis) syndrome
RIN2 deficiency
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