MEOX1

Clinical Characteristics

Mutations in MEOX1 may cause the following clinical manifestations:

Head

  • Sensorineural or conductive hearing loss (rare)
  • Abnormally shaped ears (rare)
  • Cleft lip (rare)
  • Cleft palate (rare)

Neck

  • Short neck
  • Restriction of neck mobility

Heart

  • Ventriculoseptal defect (rare)

Skeletal

  • Anomalies of the foramen magnum
  • Fusion of cervical vertebrae
  • Scoliosis
  • Omovertebral bone anomaly
  • Sprengel anomaly

Other

  • Low posterior hairline
  • Pierre-Robin sequence (rare)
  • Congenital ptosis (rare)