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primary juvenile lateral sclerosis
closely related to but clinically distinct from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Epidemiology: rare
Pathology:
- progressive paralytic disorder resulting from upper motor neuron disease with lower motor neurons unaffected
Genetics:
- associated with mutations in the gene for alsin
Related
alsin; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 2 chromosomal region candidate gene 6 protein; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 2 protein (ALS2 ALS2CR6 KIAA1563)
General
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); Lou Gerig's disease
genetic disease of the central nervous system
Database Correlations
OMIM 606353
References
OMIM :accession 606353