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pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 2E

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A pontocerebellar hypoplasia that is characterized by profoundly impaired intellectual development, progressive microcephaly, spasticity, and early-onset epilepsy that has_material_basis_in compound heterozygous mutation in the VPS53 gene on chromosome 17p13.

Signs and symptoms

  • Epicanthus
  • Hypertonia
  • Narrow forehead
  • Strabismus
  • Cerebellar atrophy
  • Short nose
  • Infantile spasms
  • Facial telangiectasia
  • Intellectual disability
  • Large earlobe