Phenotypes associated with the disease spinocerebellar ataxia 42, early-onset, severe, with neurodevelopmental deficits (OMIM:618087):
- Poor head control (HP:0002421): Difficulty to maintain correct position of the head while standing or sitting. Infant head lag is observed when the head seems to flop around or lags posteriorly behind the trunk. Several articles have maintained that head lag should be absent by age 3 to 4 months. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 1/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Upslanted palpebral fissure (HP:0000582): The palpebral fissure inclination is more than two standard deviations above the mean for age (objective); or, the inclination of the palpebral fissure is greater than typical for age. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 1/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Inability to walk (HP:0002540): Incapability to ambulate. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 1/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Strabismus (HP:0000486): A misalignment of the eyes so that the visual axes deviate from bifoveal fixation. The classification of strabismus may be based on a number of features including the relative position of the eyes, whether the deviation is latent or manifest, intermittent or constant, concomitant or otherwise and according to the age of onset and the relevance of any associated refractive error. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 3/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Dysmetria (HP:0001310): A type of ataxia characterized by the inability to carry out movements with the correct range and motion across the plane of more than one joint related to incorrect estimation of the distances required for targeted movements. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 2/2. (PMID:29878067)
- 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: 1/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Hypermetropia (HP:0000540): An abnormality of refraction characterized by the ability to see objects in the distance clearly, while objects nearby appear blurry. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 1/4. (PMID:29878067)
- 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: 2/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Short nose (HP:0003196): Distance from nasion to subnasale more than two standard deviations below the mean, or alternatively, an apparently decreased length from the nasal root to the nasal tip. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 1/4. (PMID:29878067)
- 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: 4/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Infantile onset (HP:0003593): Onset of signs or symptoms of disease between 28 days to one year of life. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 2/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Multifocal epileptiform discharges (HP:0010841): An abnormality in cerebral electrical activity recorded along the scalp by electroencephalography (EEG) and being identified at multiple locations (foci). Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 1/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Delayed fine motor development (HP:0010862): A type of motor delay characterized by a delay in acquiring the ability to control the fingers and hands. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 4/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Anteverted ears (HP:0040080). Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 1/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Sparse hair (HP:0008070): Reduced density of hairs. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 1/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Hypertelorism (HP:0000316): Interpupillary distance more than 2 SD above the mean (alternatively, the appearance of an increased interpupillary distance or widely spaced eyes). Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 1/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Oculomotor apraxia (HP:0000657): Ocular motor apraxia is a deficiency in voluntary, horizontal, lateral, fast eye movements (saccades) with retention of slow pursuit movements. The inability to follow objects visually is often compensated by head movements. There may be decreased smooth pursuit, and cancelation of the vestibulo-ocular reflex. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 3/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Clinodactyly (HP:0030084): An angulation of a digit at an interphalangeal joint in the plane of the palm (finger) or sole (toe). Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 2/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Hirsutism (HP:0001007): Abnormally increased hair growth referring to a male pattern of body hair (androgenic hair). Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 1/4. (PMID:29878067)
- 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: 4/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Hyperreflexia (HP:0001347): Hyperreflexia is the presence of hyperactive stretch reflexes of the muscles. Evidence: PCS. (PMID:29878067)
- Neonatal onset (HP:0003623): Onset of signs or symptoms of disease within the first 28 days of life. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 2/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Cerebellar vermis atrophy (HP:0006855): Wasting (atrophy) of the vermis of cerebellum. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 1/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Axial hypotonia (HP:0008936): Muscular hypotonia (abnormally low muscle tone) affecting the musculature of the trunk. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 4/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Microcephaly (HP:0000252): Head circumference below 2 standard deviations below the mean for age and gender. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 1/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Delayed speech and language development (HP:0000750): A degree of language development that is significantly below the norm for a child of a specified age. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 4/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Cerebellar hypoplasia (HP:0001321): Cerebellar hypoplasia is a descriptive term implying a cerebellum with a reduced volume, but a normal shape and is stable over time. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 3/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Deeply set eye (HP:0000490): An eye that is more deeply recessed into the plane of the face than is typical. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 1/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Global developmental delay (HP:0001263): A delay in the achievement of motor or mental milestones in the domains of development of a child, including motor skills, speech and language, cognitive skills, and social and emotional skills. This term should only be used to describe children younger than five years of age. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 4/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Narrow palpebral fissure (HP:0045025): Reduction in the vertical distance between the upper and lower eyelids. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 1/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Delayed gross motor development (HP:0002194): A type of motor delay characterized by a delay in acquiring the ability to control the large muscles of the body for walking, running, sitting, and crawling. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 4/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Delayed early-childhood social milestone development (HP:0012434): A failure to meet one or more age-related milestones of social behavior. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 4/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Limb hypertonia (HP:0002509). Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 2/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Syndactyly (HP:0001159): Webbing or fusion of the fingers or toes, involving soft parts only or including bone structure. Bony fusions are referred to as "bony" syndactyly if the fusion occurs in a radio-ulnar axis. Fusions of bones of the fingers or toes in a proximo-distal axis are referred to as "symphalangism". Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 1/4. (PMID:29878067)
- Spasticity (HP:0001257): A motor disorder characterized by a velocity-dependent increase in tonic stretch reflexes with increased muscle tone, exaggerated (hyperexcitable) tendon reflexes. Evidence: IEA. (OMIM:618087)
- 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:29878067)
- Mandibular prognathia (HP:0000303): Abnormal prominence of the chin related to increased length of the mandible. Evidence: PCS. Frequency: 1/4. (PMID:29878067)