Table 1.
Patient 1 | Patient 2 | Patient 3 | Patient 4 | Patient 5 | Patient 6 | Patient 7 | Patient 8 | |
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Family | A | B | C | D | D | A | E | E |
Sex | Male | Female | Female | Female | Male | Female | Female | Male |
Age | 8 years | 4 years | 4 years | 13 years | 10 years | 5 years | 9 years | 3 years |
Age of onset | 9 months | 6 months | 10 months | 9–12 months | ∼ 10 months | 6–7 months | 5 months | 5 months |
Upper motor neuron symptoms | Generalized spasticity | Generalized spasticity | Generalized spasticity | Generalized spasticity | Generalized spasticity | Generalized spasticity | Generalized spasticity | Generalized spasticity |
Hyperreflexia | Hyperreflexia | Hyperreflexia | Hyperreflexia | Hyperreflexia | ||||
Loss of abdominal reflex | Loss of abdominal reflex | Loss of abdominal reflex | ||||||
Lower motor neuron symptoms | Axial hypotonia | Axial hypotonia | Axial hypotonia | Axial hypotonia | Axial hypotonia | Axial hypotonia | Axial hypotonia | Axial hypotonia |
Mild muscular atrophy | Generalized muscular atrophy | Generalized muscular atrophy | Generalized muscular atrophy | |||||
Intermittent fasciculations | Intermittent fasciculations | Intermittent fasciculations | ||||||
Bulbar symptoms | Spastic dysarthria | Spastic dysarthria | Spastic dysarthria | Spastic dysarthria | Spastic dysarthria | N/A | Multiphase dysphagia | Multiphase dysphagia |
Dysphagia | Dysphagia | Dysphagia | Mild dysphagia | Dysphagia | ||||
Sialorrhea | Sialorrhea | Tongue atrophy & fasciculations | Sialorrhea | |||||
Tongue atrophy & fasciculations | Tongue atrophy & fasciculations | |||||||
Frontal lobe symptoms | Glabellar tap sign | Glabellar tap sign | – | Inadequate fits of laughter, onset at 13 years of age | Glabellar tap sign | N/A | – | – |
Inadequate crying | Inadequate fits of laughter, onset at 9 years | |||||||
Excessive startle | + | – | – | – | – | – | Distress induced self-resolving tonic decerebrate posture | Distress induced self-resolving tonic decerebrate posture |
Ocular symptoms | – | – | Bilateral optic atrophy | – | – | N/A | Bilateral optic atrophy | – |
Dysmorphic symptoms | Low set, posteriorly rotated ears | Broad nasal bridge | – | Low set ears | Low set ears | Low set ears | – | Simplified outer helix of the right ear |
Hydrocephalus | ||||||||
Overlapping toes | Overlapping toes | Overlapping toes | Overlapping toes | |||||
Arched palate |
Complete data not available for all patients.