Endocrine Abstracts

Generalized lipodystrophies are extremely rare diseases. Despite remarkable progress in identifying genes responsible for the most common forms of genetic lipodystrophies, the molecular basis of disease in some patients with distinctive phenotypes remains unclear. We herein describe the case of a male patient born from non-consanguineous parent affected by a syndrome characterized by generalized lipodystrophy, psycho-somatic growth retardation, cleft palate, macroglossia, righ...