Bainbridge-Ropers Syndrome

A rare genetic syndromic intellectual disability disorder with a variable phenotypic presentation. Typical characteristics are microcephaly, severe feeding difficulties, failure to thrive, severe global development delay that frequently results in absent/poor speech, moderate to profound intellectual disability, hypotonia and a distinctive facies that includes prominent forehead, high-arched, thin eyebrows, hypertelorism, downslanting palpebral fissures, long, tubular nose with broad tip and prominent nasal bridge and wide mouth with full, everted lower lip. Caused by heterozygous mutation in the ASXL3 gene on chromosome 18q12.