The NFASC disease is an inherited disorder that primarily affects the nervous system. The signs and symptoms of this condition can begin anytime between childbirth and early childhood, but they typically appear around 6 months of age. The first signs of the condition are usually problems with movement that might seem like clumsiness, and delay in acquiring central and motor skills.
The incidence of the NFASC disease is unknown; around 20 cases have been described in the scientific literature. The life expectancy of people with NFASC disease varies; data received so far shows that affected individuals usually survive into teenage years and early-adulthood.
This condition is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern, which means both copies of the gene in each cell have mutations. The parents of an individual with an autosomal recessive condition each carry one copy of the mutated gene, but they typically do not show signs and symptoms of the condition.
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