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infantile cerebral and cerebellar atrophy with postnatal progressive microcephaly

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A brain disease characterized by cerebral and cerebellar atrophy, postnatal progressive microcephaly and intellectual disability that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in MED17 on 11q21.

Signs and symptoms

  • Hypertonia
  • Clonus
  • Dysphagia
  • Hypsarrhythmia
  • Delayed CNS myelination
  • Hypoplasia of the brainstem
  • Feeding difficulties
  • Seizure
  • Global developmental delay
  • Secondary microcephaly

Also known as: postnatal progressive microcephaly, seizures, and brain atrophy