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Start free with EleplanLissencephaly due to LIS1 mutation
ORPHA:95232Disease
Also called PAFAH1B1-related lissencephaly
What it is
Lissencephaly due to LIS1 mutation is a cerebral malformation with epilepsy characterized predominantly by posterior isolated lissencephaly with developmental delay, intellectual disability and epilepsy that usually evolves from West syndrome to Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Additional features include muscular hypotonia, acquired microcephaly, failure to thrive and poor control of airways leading to aspiration pneumonia.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- <1 / 1 000 000
- Age of onset
- Antenatal, 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.
Signs and symptoms
Common30–79%
21- Abnormal corpus callosum morphology
- Agyria
- Anterior predominant thick cortex pachygyria
- Axial hypotonia
- Cavum septum pellucidum
- Delayed ability to sit
- Dilation of Virchow-Robin spaces
- Dysgyria
- EEG with spike-wave complexes
- Epileptic encephalopathy
- Feeding difficulties
- Hypoplasia of the corpus callosum
- Impaired smooth pursuit
- Intellectual disability, severe
- Language impairment
- Neurodevelopmental delay
- Pachygyria
- Poor head control
- Progressive microcephaly
- Tetraplegia
- 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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