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Congenital insensitivity to pain with severe intellectual disability
Disease definition
Congenital insensitivity to pain with severe intellectual disability is a rare autosomal recessive hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy characterized by the complete absence of pain perception from birth, an unresponsiveness to soft touch, severe non-progressive cognitive delay, and normal motor movement/behavior and strength. Affected cases retained hot and cold perception.
ORPHA:453510
Classification level: Disorder- Synonym(s):
- Congenital absence of pain with severe intellectual disability
- Congenital analgesia with severe intellectual disability
- Congenital insensitivity to pain with preserved temperature sensation
- Congenital insensitivity to pain with severe non-progressive cognitive delay
- Prevalence: <1 / 1 000 000
- Inheritance: Autosomal recessive
- Age of onset: Neonatal
- ICD-10: G60.8
- OMIM: -
- UMLS: -
- MeSH: -
- GARD: -
- MedDRA: -
A summary on this disease is available in Español (2020) Français (2020) Nederlands (2020)
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- Clinical genetics review
- English (2018) - GeneReviews


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