Phenotypes associated with the disease dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (OMIM:125370):
- Juvenile onset (HP:0003621): Onset of signs or symptoms of disease between the age of 5 and 15 years. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 5/18. (PMID:31755148)
- Parkinsonism (HP:0001300): Characteristic neurologic anomaly resulting from degeneration of dopamine-generating cells in the substantia nigra, a region of the midbrain, characterized clinically by shaking, rigidity, slowness of movement and difficulty with walking and gait. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 1/51. (PMID:31755148)
- Middle age onset (HP:0003596): A type of adult onset with onset of symptoms at the age of 40 to 60 years. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 6/18. (PMID:31755148)
- Dystonia (HP:0001332): An abnormally increased muscular tone that causes fixed abnormal postures. There is a slow, intermittent twisting motion that leads to exaggerated turning and posture of the extremities and trunk. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 3/51. (PMID:31755148)
- Choreoathetosis (HP:0001266): Involuntary movements characterized by both athetosis (inability to sustain muscles in a fixed position) and chorea (widespread jerky arrhythmic movements). Evidence: TAS. (OMIM:125370)
- Seizure (HP:0001250): A seizure is an intermittent abnormality of nervous system physiology characterized by a transient occurrence of signs and/or symptoms due to abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 24/51. (PMID:31755148)
- Late onset (HP:0003584): A type of adult onset with onset of symptoms after the age of 60 years. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 1/18. (PMID:31755148)
- Ataxia (HP:0001251): Ataxia refers to impaired coordination of voluntary muscle movement. Cerebellar ataxia refers to ataxia due to dysfunction of the cerebellum. This causes a variety of elementary neurological deficits including asynergy (lack of coordination between muscles, limbs and joints), dysmetria (lack of ability to judge distances that can lead to under- or overshoot in grasping movements), and dysdiadochokinesia (inability to perform rapid movements requiring antagonizing muscle groups to be switched on and off repeatedly). Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 28/51. (PMID:31755148)
- Chorea (HP:0002072): Chorea (Greek for 'dance') refers to widespread arrhythmic involuntary movements of a forcible, jerky and restless fashion. It is a random-appearing sequence of one or more discrete involuntary movements or movement fragments. Movements appear random because of variability in timing, duration or location. Each movement may have a distinct start and end. However, movements may be strung together and thus may appear to flow randomly from one muscle group to another. Chorea can involve the trunk, neck, face, tongue, and extremities. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 24/51. (PMID:31755148)
- Postural instability (HP:0002172): A tendency to fall or the inability to keep oneself from falling; imbalance. The retropulsion test is widely regarded as the gold standard to evaluate postural instability, Use of the retropulsion test includes a rapid balance perturbation in the backward direction, and the number of balance correcting steps (or total absence thereof) is used to rate the degree of postural instability. Healthy subjects correct such perturbations with either one or two large steps, or without taking any steps, hinging rapidly at the hips while swinging the arms forward as a counterweight. In patients with balance impairment, balance correcting steps are often too small, forcing patients to take more than two steps. Taking three or more steps is generally considered to be abnormal, and taking more than five steps is regarded as being clearly abnormal. Markedly affected patients continue to step backward without ever regaining their balance and must be caught by the examiner (this would be called true retropulsion). Even more severely affected patients fail to correct entirely, and fall backward like a pushed toy soldier, without taking any corrective steps. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 24/51. (PMID:31755148)
- Dementia (HP:0000726): A loss of global cognitive ability of sufficient amount to interfere with normal social or occupational function. Dementia represents a loss of previously present cognitive abilities, generally in adults, and can affect memory, thinking, language, judgment, and behavior. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 18/51. (PMID:31755148)
- Young adult onset (HP:0011462): Onset of disease at the age of between 16 and 40 years. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 6/18. (PMID:31755148)
- Atrophy of the dentate nucleus (HP:0007047): Partial or complete wasting (loss) of dentate nucleus. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: Very frequent (HP:0040281). (PMID:20500452)
- Autosomal dominant inheritance (HP:0000006): A mode of inheritance that is observed for traits related to a gene encoded on one of the autosomes (i.e., the human chromosomes 1-22) in which a trait manifests in heterozygotes. In the context of medical genetics, an autosomal dominant disorder is caused when a single copy of the mutant allele is present. Males and females are affected equally, and can both transmit the disorder with a risk of 50% for each child of inheriting the mutant allele. Evidence: PCS. (PMID:8136840)
- Intellectual disability (HP:0001249): The term intellectual disability or intellectual developmental disorder is used to describe significantly sub-average intellectual and adaptive functioning based on clinical assessment and as measured by individually administered, appropriately normed, standardized and validated tests of intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior, with onset during the developmental period from infancy through adolescence. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 8/51. (PMID:31755148)
- Genetic anticipation (HP:0003743): A type of autosomal dominant inheritance involving a gene that exhibits anticipation, the increase in severity and/or an earlier age of onset in subsequent generations. Evidence: TAS. (OMIM:125370)
- Myoclonus (HP:0001336): Very brief, involuntary random muscular contractions occurring at rest, in response to sensory stimuli, or accompanying voluntary movements. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 2/51. (PMID:31755148)