Fatty acyl-CoA reductase 1 deficiency

What it is

A rare disorder of plasmalogen biosynthesis characterized by syndromic severe intellectual disability with congenital cataracts, early-onset epilepsy, microcephaly, global developmental delay, growth retardation and short stature, and spastic quadriparesis. Dysmorphic facial features may be present, including high-arched eyebrows, flattened nasal root, hypertelorism, and long and smooth philtrum. Rhizomelia is not part of the syndrome. Cerebellar atrophy, white matter abnormalities, and Dandy-Walker malformation have been described on brain imaging.

Key facts

Prevalence

<1 / 1 000 000

Age of onset

Infancy, Neonatal

Inheritance

Autosomal recessive

Classified as

Disease

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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