Conditions / Genetic

hereditary spastic paraplegia 89

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A hereditary spastic paraplegia characterized by infantile or early childhood onset of lower limb spasticity that has_material_basis_in homozygous mutation in the AMFR gene on chromosome 16q13.

Signs and symptoms

  • Lower limb hyperreflexia
  • Motor delay
  • Spastic paraplegia
  • Thin corpus callosum
  • Mild intellectual disability
  • Seizure
  • Axial hypotonia
  • Febrile seizure (within the age range of 3 months to 6 years)
  • Microcephaly
  • Intrauterine growth retardation

Also known as: SPG89; autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia 89