Age |
20 months |
12 years |
18 years |
3 years |
9 years |
13 months |
12 years |
|
Gender |
M |
F |
M |
M |
F |
M |
M |
|
NACC1 c.892C>T (Arg298Trp) variant |
constitutional, de novo |
constitutional, de novo |
constitutional, de novo |
constitutional, de novo |
constitutional, de novo |
constitutional, de novo |
mosaic, de novo |
7/7 |
Postnatal microcephaly |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
no |
5/7 |
Intellectual/developmental disability |
profound |
profound |
profound |
profound |
profound |
profound |
severe |
7/7 |
Bilateral cataracts |
lamellar, diagnosed at 7 months old |
diagnosed at 10 and 11 years old |
diagnosed at 6 weeks old |
anterior subcapsular, congenital |
nuclear, diagnosed at 11 and 12 months old |
no |
no |
5/7 |
GI problems/feeding difficulties |
feeding intolerance, failure to thrive, gastrostomy at 9 months |
dysphagia |
severe feeding problems, PEG at 6 years old |
feeding intolerance, failure to thrive, gastrostomy at 9 months |
feeding intolerance, cyclic vomiting, gastrostomy at 2.5 years old |
dysphagia, failure to thrive |
feeding difficulties, GERD |
7/7 |
Hypotonia |
present |
present |
present |
present |
present |
present |
no |
6/7 |
Seizures |
infantile spasms |
focal seizures |
generalized tonic |
infantile spasms |
infantile spasms, mixed generalized and multifocal epilepsy |
infantile spasms, tonic seizures |
single febrile seizure, nocturnal seizures |
7/7 |
Irritability |
very fussy, breath-holding spells |
yes |
tactile aversion, unable to tolerate being held, periods of inconsolability |
bouts of irritability, breath-holding spells |
cyclical bouts of severe irritability, breath-holding spells |
yes |
yes |
7/7 |
Sleep disorder |
yes |
– |
yes |
yes |
episodes of dysauto-nomia (tachycardia and insomnia) |
– |
obstructive sleep apnea |
5/7 |
Stereotypic movements |
repetitive movement bringing hands to midline and pulling shirt down |
autistic features, Rett-like hand auto-matisms; hands always in her mouth |
Rett-like stereotypic hand movements |
repetitive hand movements |
random choreiform movements of the hands |
no |
hand flapping, autistic features |
6/7 |
Brain MRI findings |
delayed myelination, mildly decreased brain volume, slight enlargement of ventricles |
brain atrophy, temporal arachnoid cyst, MRS showed decreased NAA over basal ganglia |
reduced white matter, delayed and incomplete myelination with temporal lobes most affected, mildly decreased brain volume, MRS showed decreased NAA levels |
delayed myelination and volume loss |
minimal volume loss, delayed myelination |
volume loss |
scattered areas of subcortical white matter T2/FLAIR hyperintensity |
7/7 |