TBCK

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Clinical features and prevalence

TBCK-related encephalopathy (also called Hypotonia, infantile, with psychomotor retardation and characteristic facies 3 in OMIM) is a rare progressive neurogenetic disorder.

There are about 30 reported cases worldwide.

There is a founder variant in the Caribbean region (“Boricua mutation”) that is associated with severe disease, also known as TBCK-encephaloneuronopathy due to significant neuromuscular involvement.

 

Inheritance

It is an autosomal recessive disease.