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Townes-Brocks syndrome
1 OMIM reference -
1 associated gene
9 connected diseases
60 signs/symptoms
Disease Type of connection
Anophthalmia / microphthalmia - esophageal atresia
Colobomatous microphthalmia
Isolated anophthalmia - microphthalmia
Septo-optic dysplasia
Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic intellectual deficit
Craniopharyngioma
Desmoid tumor
Hepatocellular carcinoma, childhood-onset
Pilomatrixoma
Synonym(s):
- Imperforate anus with hand, foot and ear anomalies
- REAR syndrome
- Renal-ear-anal-radial syndrome
- Sensorineural deafness with imperforate anus and hypoplastic thumbs
- TBS
- Townes syndrome

Classification (Orphanet):
- Rare abdominal surgical disease
- Rare bone disease
- Rare developmental defect during embryogenesis
- Rare genetic disease
- Rare maxillo-facial surgical disease
- Rare otorhinolaryngologic disease
- Rare renal disease

Classification (ICD10):
- Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities -

Epidemiological data:
Class of prevalence: 1-9 / 1 000 000
Average age onset: variable
Average age of death: any age
Type of inheritance: autosomal dominant
External references:
1 OMIM reference -
1 MeSH reference: C536974

Gene symbol UniProt reference OMIM reference
SALL1 Q9NSC2602218
Very frequent
- Anus / rectum anomalies
- Autosomal dominant inheritance
- External ear anomalies
- Fingerlike / triphalangeal thumb
- Imperforate anus / rectum atresia / agenesis / recto-vaginal / vesical / perineal fistula
- Preauricular / branchial tags / appendages
- Preaxial polydactyly (hand)

Frequent
- Anus ectopia / anteposition / malposition
- Clinodactyly of fifth finger
- Constipation
- Flat foot
- Flexion deformity of toes (excluding big toe) / hammer toe / camptodactyly of toes
- Foot anomalies
- Hearing loss / hypoacusia / deafness
- Microtia / cryptomicrotia / anotia / external auditory canal / pinnae aplasia / hypoplasia
- Renal failure
- Subcutaneous nodules / lipomas / tumefaction / swelling
- Undescended / ectopic testes / cryptorchidia / unfixed testes

Occasional
- Anomalies of spine, vertebrae and pelvis
- Anomalies of the ribs
- Anophthalmos / anophthalmia / microphthalmos / microphthalmia
- Arnold-Chiari anomaly
- Atrial septal defect / interauricular communication
- Bifid scrotum
- Blepharophimosis / short palpebral fissures
- Broad / bifid big toe
- Broad / bifid thumb
- Cardiac septal defect
- Cataract / lens opacification
- Coloboma of iris
- Congenital cardiac anomaly / malformation / cardiopathy
- Conjunctival tumor / epibulbar dermoid
- Corpus callosum / septum pellucidum total / partial agenesis
- Cranial nerves palsy
- Ectopic / horseshoe / fused kidneys
- Encopresis / fecal incontinence
- Facial structural asymmetry / facial hemiatrophy / facial hemihypertrophy
- Failure to thrive / difficulties for feeding in infancy / growth delay
- Hypospadias / epispadias / bent penis
- Hypothyroidy
- Intellectual deficit / mental / psychomotor retardation / learning disability
- Late puberty / hypogonadism / hypogenitalism
- Lower limb asymmetry / hemiatrophy / hemihypertrophy
- Macrostomia / big mouth
- Micropenis / small penis / agenesis
- Oligodactyly / ectrodactyly of toes
- Patent ductus arteriosus
- Pulmonary valve atresia / stenosis / narrowing
- Retinoschisis / retinal / chorioretinal coloboma
- Short stature / dwarfism / nanism
- Strabismus / squint
- Syndactyly of toes
- Tetralogy of Fallot / trilogy of Fallot
- Tragus abnormal / absent
- Ulnar deviation of fingers
- Urethral anomalies / stenosis / posterior urethral valves / megalocystis
- Uterine / uterus / Fallopian tubes anomalies
- Vagina anomalies / atresia / hydrometrocolpos / hymen imperforation
- Vesicorenal / vesicoureteral reflux
- Visual loss / blindness / amblyopia