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ORPHA:171680Malformation syndrome
What it is
Lissencephaly (LIS) due to TUBA1A mutation is a congenital cortical development anomaly due to abnormal neuronal migration involving neocortical and hippocampal lamination, corpus callosum, cerebellum and brainstem. A large clinical spectrum can be observed, from children with severe epilepsy and intellectual and motor deficit to cases with severe cerebral dysgenesis in the antenatal period leading to pregnancy termination due to the severity of the prognosis.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- <1 / 1 000 000
- Age of onset
- Antenatal, Neonatal
- Inheritance
- Autosomal dominant, Not applicable
- Classified as
- Malformation syndrome
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%
14- Agenesis of corpus callosum
- Bilateral tonic-clonic seizure
- Cerebellar vermis hypoplasia
- Dilated fourth ventricle
- Dysgenesis of the hippocampus
- Hypoplasia of the brainstem
- Hypoplasia of the corpus callosum
- Hypoplastic anterior limbs of the internal capsule
- Hypotonia
- Lissencephaly
- Microcephaly
- Microretrognathia
- Spasticity
- Strabismus
Sometimes5–29%
11- Agyria
- Dysplastic corpus callosum
- Focal-onset seizure
- Hypoplastic hippocampus
- Infantile spasms
- Nystagmus
- Optic nerve hypoplasia
- Pachygyria
and 3 more in this range
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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