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Lissencephaly due to LIS1 mutation
Disease definition
Lissencephaly due to LIS1 mutation is a cerebral malformation with epilepsy characterized predominantly by posterior isolated lissencephaly with developmental delay, intellectual disability and epilepsy that usually evolves from West syndrome to Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Additional features include muscular hypotonia, acquired microcephaly, failure to thrive and poor control of airways leading to aspiration pneumonia.
ORPHA:95232
Classification level: DisorderA summary on this disease is available in Español (2018) Italiano (2018) Nederlands (2018) Polski ()
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Disease review articles
- Clinical genetics review
- English (2021) - GeneReviews


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