Hyperekplexia - epilepsy

General Information (adopted from Orphanet):

Synonyms, Signs: HYPEREKPLEXIA AND EPILEPSY
EIEE8
Number of Symptoms 12
OrphanetNr: 163985
OMIM Id: 300607
ICD-10: G25.8
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MeSH:
MedDRA:
Snomed:

Prevalence, inheritance and age of onset:

Prevalence: 2 cases [Orphanet]
Inheritance: X-linked recessive
[Orphanet]
Age of onset: Congenital onset
[Omim]

Disease classification (adopted from Orphanet):

Parent Diseases: Hyperekplexia
 -Rare neurologic disease
Rare genetic movement disorder
 -Rare genetic disease
X-linked intellectual deficit - epilepsy
 -Rare genetic disease
 -Rare neurologic disease
X-linked syndromic intellectual deficit
 -Rare genetic disease
 -Rare neurologic disease

Symptom Information: Sort by abundance 

1
(HPO:0006887) Intellectual disability, progressive 68 / 7739
2
(HPO:0010864) Intellectual disability, severe 120 / 7739
3
(HPO:0001276) Hypertonia 317 / 7739
4
(HPO:0200134) Epileptic encephalopathy 42 / 7739
5
(HPO:0002267) Exaggerated startle response 42 / 7739
6
(HPO:0001250) Seizures 1245 / 7739
7
(HPO:0001419) X-linked recessive inheritance 189 / 7739
8
(OMIM) Seizures provoked by tactile stimulation or extreme emotion 1 / 7739
9
(HPO:0003577) Congenital onset 133 / 7739
10
(OMIM) Impaired psychomotor development 1 / 7739
11
(OMIM) Seizures are poorly controlled 1 / 7739
12
(OMIM) Seizures, tonic, hyperekplectic 1 / 7739

Associated genes:

ClinVar (via SNiPA)

Gene symbol Variation Clinical significance Reference

Additional Information:

Clinical Description OMIM Harvey et al. (2004) reported a patient with clinical symptoms of both hyperekplexia and early infantile epileptic encephalopathy. The child was the first-born of a 32-year-old woman, delivered at 36 weeks' gestation. Cyanosis and muscular stiffness were noted ...
Molecular genetics OMIM In a girl with hyperekplexia and epilepsy, Harvey et al. (2004) detected a heterozygous gly55-to-ala mutation in the ARHGEF9 gene (300429.0001).

In a Japanese boy with X-linked mental retardation and refractory epilepsy, Shimojima et al. (2011) ...