Results: 20% patients have an associated syndrome. 29.3% presented with polydactyly. 7 of them are associated with syndromes. 59 out of 317 has syndactyly and 15% are associated with Apert Syndrome.

She was born with an extremely rare chromosomal disorder called Apert Syndrome which resulted in her being born with completely unexpected malformations to her skull, face, hands and feet.

A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution finds that the link between paternal age and rare congenital disorders is more complex than scientists had previously thought.