Conditions / Genetic

mitochondrial complex IV deficiency nuclear type 6

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A COX deficiency, infantile mitochondrial myopathy that has_material_basis_in compound heterozygous mutation in the COX15 gene on chromosome 10q24.

Signs and symptoms

  • Feeding difficulties
  • Hypotonia
  • Lower limb spasticity
  • Midface retrusion
  • Bloody diarrhea
  • Motor regression
  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  • Bilateral basal ganglia lesions
  • Retinopathy
  • Horizontal nystagmus

Also known as: MC4DN6; fatal infantile cardioencephalomyopathy due to cytochrome c oxidase deficiency 2