TANC2

Clinical Characteristics

The clinical features of TANC2 individuals include:

Neurodevelopment features:
•    Intellectual disabilities (borderline to severe ID)
•    Learning disabilities
•    ASD
•    Autistic traits / AS/Rett-like features
•    Absent speech / Language delay
•    Motor delay

Psychiatric and behavioural problems:
•    Motor and behavioural stereotypes
•    Reduced tolerance to frustration
•    Aggressive behaviour
•    ADHD
•    Psychiatric features (mood changes, hallucinations, temper tantrums)
•    Anxiety

Neurological problems:
•    Epilepsy / Seizure episodes
•    Sleep disturbance
•    Microcephaly
•    Brain MRI abnormalities

Systemic comorbidities:
•    Chronic or severe constipation
•    Vascular alterations
•    Strabismus
•    Ataxia / spastic ataxia
•    Hypotonia
•    Joint laxity
•    Spinal column deformities
•    Limb deformities (club foot, flat valgus foot, talus valgus, inversion in ankles)
•    Chest deformities (pectus excavatum, pectus carinatum)
•    Cranial alterations / Craniosynostosis (brachycephaly, turricephaly)

Facial dysmorphic features:
•    large ears with thick helices
•    thick eyebrows with synophrys
•    deep-set eyes
•    strabismus
•    large nose with high nasal bridge
•    short and flat philtrum
•    large mouth with thin upper lip
•    thicker everted lower lip
•    widely spaced teeth
•    tongue protrusion
•    low hairline