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developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 59

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A developmental and epileptic encephalopathy characterized by severe global developmental delay and onset of seizures in the first months of life that has_material_basis_in heterozygous mutation in the GABBR2 gene on chromosome 9q22.

Signs and symptoms

  • Absent speech
  • Inability to walk
  • Infantile spasms
  • Epileptic encephalopathy
  • Intellectual disability
  • Poor head control
  • Bilateral tonic-clonic seizure
  • Hypsarrhythmia
  • Scoliosis
  • Focal clonic seizure

Also known as: DEE59; early infantile epileptic encephalopathy 59