Autosomal recessive congenital cerebellar ataxia due to MGLUR1 deficiency

What it is

A rare, genetic, slowly progressive neurodegenerative disease resulting from MGLUR1 deficiency characterized by global developmental delay (beginning in infancy), mild to severe intellectual deficit with poor or absent speech, moderate to severe stance and gait ataxia, pyramidal signs (e.g. hyperreflexia) and mild dysdiadochokinesia, dysmetria, tremors, and/or dysarthria. Oculomotor signs, such as nystagmus, strabismus, ptosis and hypometric saccades, may also be associated. Brain imaging reveals progressive, generalized, moderate to severe cerebellar atrophy, inferior vermian hypoplasia, and/or constitutionally small brain.

Key facts

Prevalence

<1 / 1 000 000

Age of onset

Infancy, Neonatal

Inheritance

Autosomal recessive

Classified as

Clinical subtype

Prevalence figures describe populations, not individuals, and are often estimates from a single study. Where the figure is an incidence or a birth prevalence, it says so.

Signs and symptoms

These ranges are how often a sign appears across everyone diagnosed, not a prediction for one person — most people have some of these and not others. Orphanet also records findings that are specifically absent in this disease; those are in the data but not listed here.

Gene

ICD-10 codes

ICD-10 has no distinct code for most rare diseases, so many are filed under the nearest available one. A shared code identifies the group, not this disease — the ORPHAcode above is what identifies it.

Related health topics

Reached through the ICD-10 categories this disease is filed under, so these describe the broader group rather than this disease specifically.

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