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methylmalonic acidemia and homocysteinemia cblX type

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A methylmalonic acidemia characterized by onset in infancy of severely delayed psychomotor development, failure to thrive, intellectual disability, and intractable epilepsy that has_material_basis_in hemizygous or homozygous mutation in the HCFC1 gene on chrom

A methylmalonic acidemia characterized by onset in infancy of severely delayed psychomotor development, failure to thrive, intellectual disability, and intractable epilepsy that has_material_basis_in hemizygous or homozygous mutation in the HCFC1 gene on chromosome Xq28.

Signs and symptoms

  • Delayed CNS myelination
  • Methylmalonic aciduria
  • Methylmalonic acidemia
  • Global developmental delay
  • Seizure
  • Microcephaly
  • Short stature
  • Hyperhomocystinemia
  • Brachycephaly
  • Intellectual disability

Also known as: combined defect in adenosylcobalamin and methylcobalamin synthesis, type cblX; mental retardation, X-linked 3; methylmalonic aciduria with homocystinuria, type cblX