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X-linked mental retardation Gustavson type

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A syndromic X-linked intellectual disability that is characterized by intrauterine growth retardation, microcephaly, hypotonia, and severe global developmental delay, usually resulting in death in infancy or early childhood that has_material_basis_in hemizygou

A syndromic X-linked intellectual disability that is characterized by intrauterine growth retardation, microcephaly, hypotonia, and severe global developmental delay, usually resulting in death in infancy or early childhood that has_material_basis_in hemizygous mutation in the RBMX gene on chromosome Xq26.

Signs and symptoms

  • Hearing impairment
  • Microcephaly
  • Seizure
  • Blindness
  • Severely reduced visual acuity
  • Optic atrophy
  • Restricted large joint movement
  • Spasticity
  • Intellectual disability

Also known as: Gustavson type of X-linked syndromic intellectual developmental disorder; mental retardation with optic atrophy, deafness and seizures