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This condition has only been described in ten patients and two fetuses, who were identified owing to severe heart defects. All previously reported patients had mutations located in exons 8 and 9 of\n                      <jats:italic>NKAP<\/jats:italic>\n                      .\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Case presentation<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The proband, a 12-year-old Slavic male individual, presented with a Marfanoid habitus, tall stature, dolichostenomelia, scoliosis of the lumbar spine, moderate pectoral deformity, plano-valgus position of the feet, joint hypermobility, habitual dislocation of the right shoulder joint, arachnodactyly of the hands and feet, elongated face, muscle hypotonia, absence epilepsy, and borderline intelligence. Whole-genome sequencing revealed a missense variant NM_024528.4 chrX:119936358-T\u2009&gt;\u2009G ENST00000371410.5:c.612A\u2009&gt;\u2009C ENST00000371410.5 (ENSP00000360464.3):p.Arg204Ser in exon 4 of\n                      <jats:italic>NKAP<\/jats:italic>\n                      , classified as a variant of unknown significance. On the basis of clinical and genomic data, the child was diagnosed with X-linked syndromic intellectual developmental disorder, Hackman\u2013Di Donato type. The pathogenicity of the nucleotide variant of exon 4 of\n                      <jats:italic>NKAP<\/jats:italic>\n                      requires further analysis.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The observed case may indicate greater genetic heterogeneity of Hackman-Di Donato syndrome, linking it to mutations not only in exons 8 and 9 but also in other exons of\n                      <jats:italic>NKAP<\/jats:italic>\n                      , though more data on the variant effect, as well as the significance of exon 4 of\n                      <jats:italic>NKAP<\/jats:italic>\n                      functioning is needed. Additionally, the case illustrates the need to test male patients with a Marfanoid phenotype and intellectual disability for mutations in\n                      <jats:italic>NKAP<\/jats:italic>\n                      .\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s13256-026-05984-2","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,31]],"date-time":"2026-03-31T19:23:54Z","timestamp":1774985034000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Marfanoid phenotype with intellectual disability associated with NKAP mutation: a case report"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Alla N.","family":"Semyachkina","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ekaterina A.","family":"Nikolaeva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Daria Iu.","family":"Gritsevskaya","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Victoria Yu.","family":"Voinova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rabiat G.","family":"Kuramagomedova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sergei V.","family":"Bochenkov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Olga S.","family":"Groznova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5384-5902","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mariia A.","family":"Parfenenko","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Olga V.","family":"Kalashnikova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Evgenia A.","family":"Isupova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"5984_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"987","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ajhg.2019.09.009","volume":"105","author":"SK Fiordaliso","year":"2019","unstructured":"Fiordaliso SK, Iwata-Otsubo A, Ritter AL, Quesnel-Valli\u00e8res M, Fujiki K, Nishi E, Hancarova M, Miyake N, Morton JE, Lee S, et\u00a0al. 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