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ORPHA:521450Disease
What it is
A rare genetic systemic or rheumatologic disease characterized by infantile onset of skin anomalies (such as delayed wound healing with atrophic scars and mild alopecia with dry and brittle hair), retinal rod degeneration with night blindness, degenerative myopathy with muscle weakness, myalgia, and cramps, osteoarthritis, joint laxity, prolapse of internal organs, floating kidney syndrome, malabsorption syndrome, and hypothyroidism. The phenotype has been reported to be more severe in women than in men.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- <1 / 1 000 000
- Age of onset
- Infancy, Neonatal
- Inheritance
- Autosomal dominant
- 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.
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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