Conditions / Genetic
developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 17
info ยท Genetic
A developmental and epileptic encephalopathy characterized by onset in the first weeks or months of life of intractable seizures and very poor psychomotor development that has_material_basis_in heterozygous mutation in the GNAO1 gene on chromosome 16q13.
Signs and symptoms
- Absent speech
- Inability to walk
- Global developmental delay
- Generalized tonic seizure
- Epileptic encephalopathy
- EEG with burst suppression
- Cerebral atrophy
- Hypsarrhythmia
- Delayed CNS myelination
- Hypoplasia of the corpus callosum
Also known as: DEE17; early infantile epileptic encephalopathy 17