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Alpers' disease

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Also known as Alpers syndrome, ALPERS PROGRESSIVE INFANTILE POLIODYSTROPHY, ALPERS-HUTTENLOCHER SYNDROME, Alper's syndrome, Alpers' disease or gray-matter degeneration, MITOCHONDRIAL DNA DEPLETION SYNDROME 4A, progressive sclerosing poliodystrophy (disorder), progressive sclerosing poliodystrophy

cerebral degeneration that results in progressive degeneration of grey matter in the cerebrum and has symptom convulsions

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Within Vinony's link graph, Alpers' disease connects to mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome.

Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Subclass of
disease
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health specialty
neurology
NCI Thesaurus ID
C35257
genetic association
POLG
on focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Medicine
mode of inheritance
autosomal recessive
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