Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Motor stereotypy
Repetitive movements
HP:0000733
What it means
Use of the same abnormal action in response to certain triggers or at random. They may be used as a way to regulate one's internal state but must otherwise have no apparent functional purpose.
Rare diseases that can present with this66
Very common80–99%
9Common30–79%
29- 1p36deletion syndrome
- 5q14.3microdeletion syndrome
- Alazami syndrome
- Autism spectrum disorder due to AUTS2 deficiency
- Bilateral generalized polymicrogyria
- Childhood disintegrative disorder
- Christianson syndrome
- DYRK1A-related intellectual disability syndrome
- Houge-Janssens syndrome type 1
- Hydroxykynureninuria
- Idiopathic catatonia
- Infantile hypotonia-oculomotor anomalies-hyperkinetic movements-developmental delay syndrome
- Intellectual disability syndrome due to a DYRK1A point mutation
- Inverted duplicated chromosome 15 syndrome
- Macrocephaly-developmental delay syndrome
- Megalocornea-intellectual disability syndrome
- Microcephaly-corpus callosum and cerebellar vermis hypoplasia-facial dysmorphism-intellectual disability syndrome
- Mowat-Wilson syndrome
- Mowat-Wilson syndrome due to a ZEB2 point mutation
- Mowat-Wilson syndrome due to monosomy 2q22
- MYT1L-related developmental delay-intellectual disability-obesity syndrome
- Norrie disease
- Proximal 3p25.3 microdeletion syndrome
- Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome due to 16p13.3 microdeletion
- Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome due to CREBBP mutations
- Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome due to EP300 haploinsufficiency
- Severe intellectual disability-short stature-behavioral abnormalities-facial dysmorphism syndrome
- Sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy
- Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome
Sometimes5–29%
25- 22q11.2duplication syndrome
- 2q37microdeletion syndrome
- 48,XXYY syndrome
- 4q21microdeletion syndrome
- 7q11.23microduplication syndrome
- Cortical dysgenesis with pontocerebellar hypoplasia due to TUBB3 mutation
- Developmental and speech delay due to SOX5 deficiency
- Early-onset epileptic encephalopathy-cortical blindness-intellectual disability-facial dysmorphism syndrome
and 17 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: Abnormal repetitive mannerism · Repetitive behavior · repetitive behaviour · Repetitive behaviour Stereotypic behaviour · Repetitive, stereotypic behavior · Stereotyped · Stereotyped behavior · Stereotyped behaviors
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