A case of an infant suspected as IMAGE syndrome who were finally diagnosed with MIRAGE syndrome by targeted Mendelian exome sequencing

Background Adrenal hypoplasia is a rare congenital disorder, which can be classified into a non-syndromic form, without extra-adrenal features, and a syndromic form, with such features. Despite biochemical and molecular genetic evaluation, etiologic diagnosis cannot be performed in many patients with adrenal hypoplasia. Case presentation The patient in this case was a boy born at 31 weeks of gestation with a weight of 882 g ( T (p.R982C) in exon 3 in SAMD9. Conclusion This report describes the first Korean case of MIRAGE syndrome. The patient presented with severe primary adrenal insufficiency, intrauterine growth retardation, and recurrent infection. SAMD9 mutation should be considered in patients who present with adrenal hypoplasia and extra-adrenal phenotypes.This work was supported the Post-Genome Technology Development Program (10053626, Development of Decision Making System for Emergency Prediction) funded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE, Korea)