Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome

Summary
Synonym
  • Alper's syndrome
  • Alpers disease
  • Alpers progressive infantile poliodystrophy
  • Alpers syndrome
  • Alpers' disease or gray-matter degeneration
  • Diffuse Cerebral Sclerosis of Schilder
  • mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 4a
  • progressive sclerosing poliodystrophy
Definition
A mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome that is characterized by a clinical triad of psychomotor retardation, intractable epilepsy, and liver failure in infants and young children, and has_material_basis_in autosomal recessive inheritance of homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the nuclear gene encoding mitochondrial DNA polymerase gamma on chromosome 15q26.
Super Class
autosomal recessive disease mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome
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Disease Ontology
DOID:0080122
Mondo Disease Ontology
MeSH
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Related Genes
Displaying 1 entry
Gene ID Gene Symbol Description Source
5621 PRNP prion protein (Kanno blood group)
Related Glycoprotein
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UniProt ID Protein Name Source
P04156 Major prion protein

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