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neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis 13

info · Genetic · ICD-10: E75.4

A neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis that is characterized by autosomal recessive inheritance with adult onset of progressive cognitive decline and motor dysfunction leading to dementia and often early death and has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heteroz

A neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis that is characterized by autosomal recessive inheritance with adult onset of progressive cognitive decline and motor dysfunction leading to dementia and often early death and has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the CTSF gene on chromosome 11q13.

Signs and symptoms

  • Mental deterioration
  • Dementia
  • Diffuse cerebral atrophy
  • Bilateral tonic-clonic seizure
  • Ataxia
  • Dysarthria
  • Tremor
  • Cerebral cortical atrophy
  • Seizure
  • Primitive reflex

Also known as: CLN13; neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis 13 Kufs type