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Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia-epilepsy-intellectual disability syndrome due to RUBCN deficiency
Disease definition
An extremely rare, autosomal recessive, hereditary cerebellar ataxia disorder characterized by early onset of progressive, mild to moderate gait and limb ataxia, moderate to severe dysarthria, and nystagmus or saccadic pursuit, frequently associated with epilepsy, moderate intellectual disability, delayed speech acquisition, and hyporeflexia in the upper extremities. Hyperreflexia in the lower extremities may also be associated.
ORPHA:404499
Classification level: Disorder- Synonym(s):
- Autosomal recessive spinocerebellar ataxia type 15
- SCAR15
- Salih ataxia
- Prevalence: <1 / 1 000 000
- Inheritance: Autosomal recessive
- Age of onset: Infancy
- ICD-10: G11.1
- OMIM: 615705
- UMLS: -
- MeSH: -
- GARD: -
- MedDRA: -
A summary on this disease is available in Español (2018) Italiano (2018) Nederlands (2018)
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Disease review articles
- Clinical genetics review
- English (2022) - GeneReviews


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