Alpers' disease
cerebral degeneration that results in progressive degeneration of grey matter in the cerebrum and has symptom convulsions
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Summary
Alpers' disease is a rare disease[1].
Key Facts
- Instance of: class of disease[2]
- Subclass of: cerebral degeneration[3], mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome[4], autosomal recessive disease[5]
- Prevalence: 0.000001[6]
- Mode of inheritance: autosomal recessive[7]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C35257[8]
- Health specialty: neurology[9]
- Genetic association: POLG[10]
- Age of onset: juvenile onset[11], adult onset[12], childhood onset[13], infantile onset[14]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[15]
- Has phenotype: microcephaly[16], eye disease[17], distorted vision[18], hypotonia[19], spasticity[20], global developmental delay[21], Choreoathetosis[22], areflexia[23], myoclonus[24], tonic–clonic seizure[25], Progressive spasticity[26], spastic paraparesis[27]
- P14914: D00726[28]