DISEASE: Polyhydramnios, megalencephaly, and symptomatic epilepsy
Entry
H01112 Disease
Name
Polyhydramnios, megalencephaly, and symptomatic epilepsy; PMSE syndrome
Description
Polyhydramnios, megalencephaly, symptomatic epilepsy (PMSE) is a severe human developmental and epileptic syndrome caused by a homozygous partial deletion in the STRAD-alpha gene (LYK5), truncating 180 C-terminal residues of the protein. Individuals affected by this condition suffer from severe mental retardation, gross movement disorders, and childhood mortality. Severe intractable epilepsy and megalencephaly are characteristic.
Category
Congenital malformation
Brite
Pathway-based classification of diseases [BR:br08402]
Signal transduction
nt06522 mTOR signaling
H01112 Polyhydramnios, megalencephaly, and symptomatic epilepsy