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DOID:0080122 - Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome


Disease Ontology 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.

Synonyms: Alper's syndrome, Alpers disease, Alpers progressive infantile poliodystrophy, Alpers syndrome, Alpers' disease or gray-matter degeneration, Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome, Diffuse Cerebral Sclerosis of Schilder, mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 4a, progressive sclerosing poliodystrophy,

Xenbase Genes : polg

Mondo Disease Ontology (on Monarch Initiative):
MONDO:0008758 - mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 4a


Other Model Organisms: AGR, MGI, ZFIN, FlyBase, WormBase, RGD

Ontology Viewers: Disease Ontology, EMBL-EBI, OLSVis tree view, Ontobee
Parent(s): autosomal recessive disease (is_a), mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (is_a), mitochondrial metabolism disease (is_a)