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In Brazil, limited data challenge diagnosis and management.\u00a0To describe the clinical and sociodemographic profile of individuals with suspected skeletal dysplasia, without confirmed etiological diagnosis, evaluated at a university hospital in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, and referred for genomic sequencing through the Rare Genomes Project.\u00a0Observational, cross-sectional study including 90 individuals evaluated at Hospital Professor Edgard Santos, that is part of Federal University of Bahia, between December 2020 and May 2023. All patients were evaluated by a medical geneticist, and clinical data were extracted from medical records and standardized using Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) terms.\u00a0Most participants (71%) were from countryside of Bahia, 68% were mixed-race, with balanced sex distribution. The mean age was 11.4 years. Consanguinity was reported in 28% and family recurrence in 34% of cases. 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