Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Broad-based gait
Wide based walk
HP:0002136
What it means
An abnormal gait pattern in which persons stand and walk with their feet spaced widely apart. This is often a component of cerebellar ataxia.
Rare diseases that can present with this51
Very common80–99%
5Common30–79%
25- 2q23.1microduplication syndrome
- Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia-pyramidal signs-nystagmus-oculomotor apraxia syndrome
- Beta-sarcoglycan-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R4
- Cerebellar ataxia, Cayman type
- Cerebello-oculo-facio-genital syndrome
- Childhood-onset autosomal recessive slowly progressive spinocerebellar ataxia
- Congenital cerebellar ataxia due to RNU12 mutation
- DYRK1A-related intellectual disability syndrome due to 21q22.13q22.2 microdeletion
- FG syndrome type 1
- Gamma-sarcoglycan-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R5
- Huntington disease-like 3
- Infantile-onset autosomal recessive nonprogressive cerebellar ataxia
- Intellectual disability-coarse face-macrocephaly-cerebellar hypotrophy syndrome
- Intellectual disability-epilepsy-extrapyramidal syndrome
- Juvenile Huntington disease
- Mowat-Wilson syndrome
- Mowat-Wilson syndrome due to a ZEB2 point mutation
- Mowat-Wilson syndrome due to monosomy 2q22
- Multiple system atrophy, cerebellar type
- Postnatal microcephaly-infantile hypotonia-spastic diplegia-dysarthria-intellectual disability syndrome
- Pyruvate dehydrogenase E2 deficiency
- Seizures-scoliosis-macrocephaly syndrome
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 40
- X-linked intellectual disability, Cabezas type
- X-linked intellectual disability-hypotonia-movement disorder syndrome
Sometimes5–29%
20- 6q16microdeletion syndrome
- Abetalipoproteinemia
- Angelman syndrome due to a point mutation
- Angelman syndrome due to imprinting defect in 15q11-q13
- Angelman syndrome due to maternal 15q11q13 deletion
- Angelman syndrome due to paternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 15
- Autosomal dominant Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2Y
- Autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia type 46
and 12 more in this range
The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Broad based gait · Wide based gait · Wide-based gait
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