Childhood-onset neurodegeneration with brain atrophy: What Patients Should Know

By Dr. Caleb Morales, DO · 2023-01-09 · Pediatrics

Our Pediatrics team put together this overview of childhood-onset neurodegeneration with brain atrophy for patients and families.

About this topic

Topic: childhood-onset neurodegeneration with brain atrophy. A neurodegenerative disease characterized by loss of motor and cognitive skills between ages 2 and 7 years with progressive cerebral and cerebellar atrophy, resulting in the inability to walk, absence of language, and profound intellectual disability, that has_material_basis_in heterozygous mutation in the UBTF gene on chromosome 17q21.31.

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