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developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 69

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A developmental and epileptic encephalopathy characterized by early-onset refractory seizures, hypotonia, and profoundly impaired development that has_material_basis_in heterozygous mutation in the CACNA1E gene on chromosome 1q25.3.

Signs and symptoms

  • Axial hypotonia
  • Absent speech
  • Inability to walk
  • Spastic tetraplegia
  • Hyperkinetic movements
  • Hypsarrhythmia
  • EEG abnormality
  • Cerebral cortical atrophy
  • Corpus callosum atrophy
  • Nystagmus

Also known as: DEE69; early infantile epileptic encephalopathy 69