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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2013 Aug;13(8):366. doi: 10.1007/s11910-013-0366-z

Table 1.

Genotype-phenotype correlations of the NCL disorder.

Disease Prior designation OMIM # MI Gene Age of onset Clinical phenotype Early Symptoms and Signs Usual survival Pathology
CLN1 INCL 256730 AR PPT1 6 -24mos classic infantile developmental failure, seizures, myoclonus, visual failure 2 - 6 yrs GROD
2 - 4yrs late-infantile dev regression, seizures, visual failure 5 - 12+ yrs
4 - 6yrs juvenile visual failure, seizures, behavioral, dementia 10 -20yrs
CLN2 vLINCL 204500 AR TPP1 2 - 4yrs classic late infantile, [juvenile] malignant seizures, myoclonus, developmental & visual failure 6 - 12+ yrs CL
CLN3 JNCL (Batten) 204200 AR CLN3 3 - 8yrs classic juvenile visual failure, dementia, behavioral and motor difficulties, late seizures 20 -40yrs Vacuolated lymphocytes, FP, CL, RL
CLN4 ANCL (Parry) 162350 AD DNAJC5 teenage - 30+ juvenile to adult dementia, seizures, myoclonus, without visual loss 5 - 20yrs GROD
CLN5 vLINCL 1 256731 AR CLN5 3 - 7yrs Variant late infantile, [juvenile, adult] behavior abnl, cognitive decline, seizures, visual faliure, myoclonus, motor difficulties teenage+ CL, FP, RL
CLN6 vLINCL 2 601780 AR CLN6 1.5 -8yrs Variant late infantile visual failure, cognitive decline, seizures, myoclonus teenage+ FP, CL
ANCL Kufs, type A 204300 16 - 51 yrs adult-onset progressive myoclonic epilepsy, no retinal changes FP, GROD
CLN7 vLINCL 3 610951 AR MFSD8 1.5 -6yrs Variant late infantile, [juvenile, adult] visual failure, dementia, seizures, myoclonus teenage+ RL, FP
CLN8 vLINCL 600143 AR CLN8 1.5 -7yrs variant late infantile myoclonic seizures, visual failure, ataxia, cognitive decline teenage+ GROD, CL [FP]
EPMR 610003 5 -10yrs Northern epilepsy seizures, slow dementia without visual loss 40+ GROD, CL
CLN10 CNCL 610127 AR CTSD neonatal congenital, [late infantile, adult] Epileptic encephalopathy, microcephaly < 1 yr GROD
CLN11 614706 AR GRN early 20s adult visual failure, myoclonic seizures, ataxia, dementia 30+ FP
FTLD-GRN 607485 AD 35 -65yrs adult myoclonic seizures, ataxia, cognitive decline 50+ TDP-43
CLN12 Kufor-Rakeb syndrome 606693 AR ATP13A2 8 - 12 yrs juvenile parkinsonism, ataxia, dementia 30+ FP, vacuolated lymphocytes, NBIA
CLN13 Kufs, type B AR CTSF 20 -30yrs adult movement abnl (ataxia, tremor) and dementia, rare seizures FP [brain]
CLN14 EPM3 611726 AR KCTD7 <2 years infantile seizures, motor & speech regression, visual failure teenage FP. GROD
1

Variant initially described in a Finnish population and referred to as the Finnish variant.

2

Formerly described as Lake-Cavanagh early-juvenile NCL variant and Indian-variant late-infantile NCL.

3

Formerly also called Turkish variant.

OMIM: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (www.omim.org)

MI: Mode of inheritance

AR: autosomal recessive

AD: autosomal dominant

INCL: infantile NCL

LINCL: late-infantile NCL; vLINCL: variant LINCL

ANCL: adult NCL

CNCL: congenital NCL

EPMR: epilepsy, progressive, with mental retardation

EPM3: epilepsy, progressive myoclonic 3, with or without intracellular inclusions; mos: months

yrs: years

dev: developmental

abnl: abnormal

GROD: granular osmiophilic deposit

CL: curvilinear

FP: fingerprint

RL: rectilinear

NBIA: Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation