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. 2018 Dec;6(24):476. doi: 10.21037/atm.2018.11.39

Table 3. The neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses, associated genes, phenotypes, and encoded protein.

Gene Disease/phenotype Alternative name Encoded protein
CLN1/PPT1 CLN1 disease, infantile Infantile Palmitoyl protein thioesterase 1, PPT1
CLN1 disease, late infantile
CLN1 disease, juvenile
CLN1 disease, adult
CLN2/TPP1 CLN2 disease, late infantile Late-Infantile Tripeptidyl peptidase 1, TPP1
CLN2 disease, juvenile
CLN3 CLN3 disease Juvenile CLN3 transmembrane protein/Battenin
CLN4/DNAJC5 CLN4 disease Adult autosomal dominant Batten Cysteine string protein α
Kuf’s disease
Ceroid Lipofuscinosis Parry type
CLN5 CLN5 disease, late infantile Finnish variant late‐infantile Ceroid-lipofuscinosis neuronal protein 5
CLN5 disease, juvenile
CLN5 disease, adult
CLN6 CLN6 disease, late infantile Early juvenile variant or l ate infantile variant Ceroid-lipofuscinosis neuronal
protein 6
CLN6 disease, juvenile
CLN6 disease, adult
CLN7/MFSD8 CLN7 disease, late infantile Late-infantile variant Major facilitator superfamily domain-containing protein 8
CLN8 CLN8 disease, late infantile Late-infantile variant Protein CLN8
EPMR (progressive epilepsy with mental retardation)
CLN10/CTSD CLN10 disease, congenital Congenital classic Cathepsin D
CLN10 disease, late infantile Late-infantile
CLN10 disease, juvenile Adult
CLN10 disease, adult
CLN11/GRN CLN11 disease, adult Adult (heterozygous mutations Progranulin
cause frontotemporal lobar dementia)
CLN12/ATP13A2 CLN12 disease, juvenile CLN12 disease ATPase type 13A2
Juvenile (mutations also cause Kufor-Rakeb syndrome)
CLN13/CTSF CLN13 disease, adult Adult Kufs type B Cathepsin F
CLN14/KCTD7 CLN14 disease, infantile CLN14 disease, infantile Potassium channel tetramerization domain containing protein 7

Adapted from Williams RE and Mole SE 2012 (86) with permission.