Conditions / Syndrome

Waisman syndrome

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A syndrome characterized by delayed psychomotor development, impaired intellectual development, and early-onset Parkinson disease that has_material_basis_in hemizygous or homozygous mutation in the RAB39B gene on chromosome Xq28.

Signs and symptoms

  • Bradykinesia
  • Parkinsonism
  • Rigidity
  • Parkinsonism with favorable response to dopaminergic medication
  • Resting tremor
  • Postural instability
  • Poor speech
  • Megalencephaly
  • Seizure
  • Shuffling gait

Also known as: Laxova-Opitz syndrome; early-onset parkinsonism-intellectual disability syndrome