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A thorough clinical workup, including laboratory investigations, imaging, and genetic analysis, resulted in a confirmed diagnosis of Culler-Jones syndrome. Peripheral blood samples collected from the proband and his parents were used for DNA extraction. Whole-exome sequencing (WES) identified a heterozygous nonsense variant in the\n                    <jats:italic>GLI2<\/jats:italic>\n                    gene, [c.2137(exon13)G&amp;gt;T\/p.(E713,857) (NM_001374353)], which was subsequently validated by Sanger sequencing and determined to be maternally inherited. This mutation has not been previously documented in the literature. 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