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pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 7

Disease Summary
Associated Targets (1)
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Mondo Description Pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 7 (PCH7) is a novel very rare form of pontocerebellar hypoplasia with unknown etiology and poor prognosis reported in four patients and is characterized clinically during the neonatal period by hypotonia, no palpable gonads, micropenis and from infancy by progressive microcephaly, apneic episodes, poor feeding, seizures and regression of penis. MRI demonstrates a pontocerebellar hypoplasia. PCH7 is expressed as PCH with 46,XY disorder of sex development in individuals with XY karyotype, and may be expressed as PCH only in individuals with XX karyotype.
Uniprot Description A form of pontocerebellar hypoplasia, a group of related disorders characterized by underdevelopment of the pons and the cerebellum. Pontocerebellar hypoplasia also causes impaired growth of other parts of the brain, leading to an unusually small head size. PCH7 patients manifest delayed psychomotor development, hypotonia, breathing abnormalities, and gonadal abnormalities.
Disease Ontology Description A pontocerebellar hypoplasia that is characterized by delayed psychomotor development, hypotonia, gonadal abnormalities and respiratory failure, has_material_basis_in autosomal recessive mutation in the TOE1 gene.
Mondo Term and Equivalent IDs
MONDO:0013993:  pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 7
Orphanet:284339: 
SCTID:718605009: 
UMLS:C3554226: