PLAA-associated neurodevelopmental disorder

What it is

A rare genetic neurological disorder characterized by infantile onset of progressive leukoencephalopathy, microcephaly, severe global developmental delay, and spasticity resulting in quadriparesis and posture deformation. Additional features include an abnormally exaggerated startle reflex, seizures, dystonia, and hypomimia or amimia, as well as progressive chest deformities and contractures of large and hyperextensibility of small joints, among others. Thin corpus callosum is a prominent feature in brain imaging, in addition to white matter abnormalities consistent with leukoencephalopathy.

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.

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