A first case report of hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia from Oman.

This is a first case report of a patient with hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia from Oman, who was found to carry a mutation in the EDAR gene after candidate gene selection based on regions of homozygosity in his genome.

Rare NF1 microdeletion syndrome in an Omani patient.

Neurofibromatosis-1 phenotype combined with webbed neck and short stature in a young Omani patient was revealed to be due to a de novo germ-line heterozygous 1.7 Mb microdeletion at 17q11.2. This lead to the diagnosis of NF1 microdeletion syndrome.