Conditions / Genetic

glucose transporter type 1 deficiency syndrome 2

info ยท Genetic

A dystonia characterized by paroxysmal exercise-induced dyskinesia involving transient abnormal involuntary movements in the exercised limbs that has_material_basis_in heterozygous mutation in the SLC2A1 gene on chromosome 1p34.

Signs and symptoms

  • Decreased circulating haptoglobin concentration
  • Dyskinesia
  • Hemolytic anemia
  • Reticulocytosis
  • Splenomegaly
  • Increased CSF lactate
  • Cerebral atrophy
  • EEG abnormality
  • Choreoathetosis
  • Dystonia

Also known as: DYT18; GLUT1 deficiency syndrome 2; GLUT1DS2; childhood-onset GLUT1 deficiency syndrome 2; dystonia 18