Microcephaly-intellectual disability-sensorineural hearing loss-epilepsy-abnormal muscle tone syndrome

What it is

A rare genetic disease characterized by microcephaly, global developmental delay, intellectual disability, abnormal muscle tone, and sensorineural hearing impairment. Additional variable manifestations include epilepsy, cortical visual impairment, gastrointestinal disturbances, growth restriction, scoliosis, as well as immunodeficiency and thrombocytopenia. Brain imaging may show cerebral atrophy, thin corpus callosum, and hypomyelination.

Key facts

Prevalence

<1 / 1 000 000

Age of onset

Infancy, Neonatal

Inheritance

Autosomal recessive

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

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.

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