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Start free with EleplanDYRK1A-related intellectual disability syndrome due to 21q22.13q22.2 microdeletion
ORPHA:268261Etiological subtype
Also called 21q22.13q22.2 microdeletion syndrome · Del(21)(q22.13q22.2) · Monosomy 21q22.13q22.2
What it is
A rare, syndromic intellectual disability characterized by global developmental delay including severely delayed or absent speech, moderate to severe intellectual disability, behavioral issues, stereotypic behavior, febrile seizures and epilepsy, abnormal gait, vision defects, and characteristic facial features. Intrauterine growth restriction and feeding difficulties are frequently present.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- <1 / 1 000 000
- Age of onset
- Infancy, Neonatal
- Inheritance
- Not applicable, Unknown
- Classified as
- Etiological 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
Very common80–99%
6Common30–79%
22- 2-4 toe cutaneous syndactyly
- Abnormal foot morphology
- Abnormality of the eye
- Abnormality of the genitourinary system
- Abnormality of toe
- Absent speech
- Ataxia
- Broad-based gait
- CNS hypomyelination
- Constipation
- Failure to thrive in infancy
- Hypoplasia of the brainstem
- Intrauterine growth retardation
- Microcephaly
- Poor speech
- Posterior pituitary hypoplasia
- Prominent nasal bridge
- Seizure
- Short stature
- Small for gestational age
- Tapered finger
- Ventriculomegaly
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.
Cross-references
Orphadata Science: Free access data from Orphanet. © INSERM 1999. Data version 2026-06-23. Available under CC BY 4.0. This is a reference, not medical advice.
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