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Signs and symptoms may be present from birth or begin in later childhood to adolescence. The historical figure, Julia Pastrana and her infant son, likely had this syndrome. The underlying cause of Gingival fibromatosis with hypertrichosis is unknown, but speculated to involve a heritable contiguous gene deletion. Gingival fibromatosis with hypertrichosis can be inhertied from an affected parent or occur for the first time in a family due to a new (spontaneous) genetic change in the affected person. An autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance has been demonstrated in individual families. The signs and symptoms of Gingival fibromatosis with hypertrichosis overlap with a number of other gum overgrowth syndromes, such as Laband syndrome, juvenile hyaline fibromatosis and Jones syndrome. Improved understanding regarding the cause, will likely aid in distinguishing these syndromes in the future.","Curated_USA_Estimate_Source__c":null,"Curated_USA_Estimate__c":null,"Age_at_Onset_Snippet_Text__c":"as a Newborn and as an Infant","SourceID__c":"ORPHA:2026","Deprecated__c":"No","Disease_Concept_Type__c":"Rare Disease Entity","MONDO_ID__c":"MONDO:0007610","ORPHANET_ID__c":"ORPHA:2026","Replaced_By_ID__c":null,"Display_Spanish_Disease_Name__c":"Síndrome de fibromatosis gingival-hipertricosis","Spanish_Description_Source__c":"ORPHA:2026","Spanish_Description__c":"Es un trastorno poco frecuente autosómico dominante, caracterizado por un agrandamiento generalizado de la encía que se produce en el nacimiento o durante la infancia, que está asociado con una hipertricosis generalizada que se desarrolla a partir del nacimiento, durante los primeros años de vida, o en la pubertad y que afecta predominantemente a la cara, las extremidades superiores y la espalda media.","Spanish_Disease_Name__c":"síndrome de fibromatosis gingival-hipertricosis","Spanish_GARD_Synonym__c":"cght; hipertricosis con o sin hiperplasia gingival; hipertricosis congénita generalizada terminal; síndrome de hirsutismo-hiperplasia gingival congénita","Category_Linearization__c":"ORPHA:93890","icd10_id__c":null,"mesh_id__c":null,"omim_id__c":null,"snomed_id__c":null,"umls_id__c":null,"GARD_Disease__c":[{"Curated_Disease_Description__c":"Gingival fibromatosis with hypertrichosis is a genetic condition that can cause profound overgrowth of hair and gums, as well as other variable features. 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