Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Obsessive-compulsive trait
Obsessive-compulsive traits
HP:0008770
What it means
The presence of one or more obsessive-compulsive personality traits. Obsessions refer to persistent intrusive thoughts, and compulsions to intrusive behaviors, which the affected person experiences as involuntary, senseless, or repugnant.
Obsessions have been defined as intrusive and unwanted thoughts that are subjectively experienced as unacceptable.
Rare diseases that can present with this16
Common30–79%
5Sometimes5–29%
8- Autoerythrocyte sensitization syndrome
- Dicarboxylic aminoaciduria
- Distal deletion 12q syndrome
- Hao-Fountain syndrome due to 16p13.2 microdeletion
- Homocystinuria due to cystathionine beta-synthase deficiency
- Severe intellectual disability-poor language-strabismus-grimacing face-long fingers syndrome
- Severe primary trimethylaminuria
- SYNGAP1-related developmental and epileptic encephalopathy
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.
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