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developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 56

info ยท Genetic

A developmental and epileptic encephalopathy characterized by early-onset seizures in most patients, intellectual disability, and variable behavioral abnormalities that has_material_basis_in heterozygous mutation in the YWHAG gene on chromosome 7q11.

Signs and symptoms

  • EEG abnormality
  • Seizure
  • Global developmental delay
  • Intellectual disability
  • Broad-based gait
  • Scoliosis
  • Myoclonic seizure
  • EEG with polyspike wave complexes
  • Anxiety
  • Incoordination

Also known as: DEE56; early infantile epileptic encephalopathy 56