Developmental and speech delay due to SOX5 deficiency is a rare genetic syndromic intellectual disability characterized by mild to severe global developmental delay intellectual disability and behavioral abnormalities hypotonia strabismus optic nerve hypoplasia and mild facial dysmorphic features (down slanting palpebral fissures frontal bossing crowded teeth auricular abnormalities and prominent philtral ridges). Other associated clinical features may include seizures and skeletal anomalies (kyphosis/scoliosis pectus deformities).
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