Genome Sequencing Identifies Two Patients with Jeffries-Lakhani Neurodevelopmental Syndrome

NSGC Poster (2025)

PMID

Publication AuthorsSydney A. Lau, MS, CGC, Bailey Hummel, MSPH, CGC, Alexander Y. Kim, MD, FAAP, FACMG, Claire McDonald, MS, MPH, CGC, Amitha Ananth, MD, Robert Rigobello, MS, CGC, Leah Campbell, MS, CGC, Eileen Barr, MS, CGC, Lisa Salz, MS, CGC, Jason Chibuk, MS, CGC, Xiaonan Zhao, PhD, FACMG, Wilson Wu, PhD, FACMG, Christine Eng, MD

Background
• Jeffries-Lakhani neurodevelopmental syndrome (JELANS) is a recently-described autosomal recessive condition associated with CRELD1. Most patients with JELANS have early-onset seizures (median age 5 months), hypotonia, and global developmental delay (DD). Many have dysmorphic features, feeding difficulties, and cardiac arrhythmias.
• CRELD1 has a critical role in development of the neurological and cardiac systems.
• With less than 25 individuals published in the literature, the phenotypic spectrum is still being defined.
• Here, we describe two unrelated patients diagnosed with JELANS through trio genome sequencing (GS) at our clinical laboratory to improve understanding of the phenotype and clinical management for affected patients.

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