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Additional congenital malformations may be present in SLOS, and broad clinical variability has been recognized in SLOS. Rarely, biallelic pathogenic DHCR7 variants were reported with low-normal and normal intelligence quotient (IQ) and development. We report here a pair of siblings with mild global developmental delay, infrequent epileptic seizures, and elevated serum 7-DHC levels, associated with the homozygous DHCR7 variant c.988G&gt;A (p.Val330Met). Remarkably, neither sibling displayed congenital anomalies nor dysmorphisms. Quattro-exome sequencing performed for global delay and mild ID in both siblings did not identify other ID causes. c.988G&gt;A affects a highly conserved amino acid and displays a relatively high global population allele frequency of 0.04%, with absence of homozygotes from the population database gnomADv4.1.0. 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