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FUCOSIDOSIS

FUCOSIDOSIS
ALPHA-L-FUCOSIDASE DEFICIENCY
230000
OMIM = Online Mendelian Inheritance of Men
349
Tissue alpha-L-fucosidase
3.2.1.51
1p36.11

Detail information to gene locus by the National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI:
E77.1
rare (<1:200000)
autosomal recessive
mutation in the FUCA1 gene
2 types:
Fucosidosis I - severe infantile form
Fucosidosis II - milder form
Laboratory findings    alpha-L-Fucosidase dec (fibroblasts)
    Chitotriosidase inc (plasma)
    Chloride inc (sweat)
    Fucoglycopeptides inc (urine)
    Lymphocytes, vacuoles (blood)
    Oligosaccharides inc (urine)
    Sodium inc (sweat)
Symptoms    angiokeratoma
    basal ganglia, changes, lesions, calcifications (MRI, CT)
    cardiomegaly
    cardiomyopathy
    cerebral atrophy
    coarse facial features
    contractures, joints
    corneal clouding
    CT, brain, abnormalities [-]
    dehydration
    dysostosis multiplex
    dystonia
    epilepsy
    growth retardation, poor growth
    hearing defect, deafness
    hepatomegaly (large liver)
    hernia
    hypertonia, spasticity
    infections (severe or recurrent)
    macrocephaly (large calvaria, >2 SD for age)
    mental retardation
    MRI, brain, abnormalities [-]
    neurological deterioration
    onset, childhood
    peripheral neuropathy
    ptosis (drooping eyelid)
    seizures
    short stature
    skin defects
    skin, thickened
    skoliosis, kyphoskoliosis
    spastic diplegia/quadriplegia/tetraplegia
    splenomegaly (large spleen)
    teleangiectasia