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ORPHA:157946Disease
Also called HDL3
What it is
Huntington disease-like 3 is a rare Huntington disease-like syndrome characterized by childhood-onset progressive neurologic deterioration with pyramidal and extrapyramidal abnormalities, chorea, dystonia, ataxia, gait instability, spasticity, seizures, mutism, and (on brain MRI) progressive frontal cortical atrophy and bilateral caudate atrophy.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- <1 / 1 000 000 (Europe)
- Age of onset
- Childhood
- 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
Common30–79%
22- Abnormal head movements
- Abnormality of extrapyramidal motor function
- Abnormality of speech or vocalization
- Abnormal pyramidal sign
- Atypical behavior
- Bowel incontinence
- Broad-based gait
- Caudate atrophy
- Cerebral cortical atrophy
- Chorea
- Cognitive impairment
- Dystonia
- Extrapyramidal dyskinesia
- Extrapyramidal muscular rigidity
- Flexion contracture
- Loss of facial expression
- Mutism
- Progressive gait ataxia
- Psychomotor deterioration
- Seizure
- Spasticity
- Urinary incontinence
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.
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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