FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome ID (Ontology) DOID:0080122 (Human Disease)
Definition A mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome that is characterized by a clinical triad of psychomotor retardation, intractable epilepsy, and liver failure in infants and young children, and has_material_basis_in autosomal recessive inheritance of homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the nuclear gene encoding mitochondrial DNA polymerase gamma (POLG) on chromosome 15q26.
Also Known As "Alper's syndrome" ; "Alpers disease" ; "Alpers progressive infantile poliodystrophy" (for all, see Synonyms field below)
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 Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome       3      2      1
 for disease ribbon | Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome       --       1       --
 model of | Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome       1      1       --
 DOES NOT ameliorate | Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome       2       --       --
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autosomal genetic disease
 |__autosomal recessive disease___________
mitochondrial metabolism disease          |
 |__mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome__|
                                          Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome  6 rec.
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Synonyms
  • "Alper's syndrome" EXACT
    "Alpers disease" EXACT
    "Alpers progressive infantile poliodystrophy" EXACT
    "Alpers syndrome" EXACT
    "Alpers' disease or gray-matter degeneration" EXACT
    "Diffuse Cerebral Sclerosis of Schilder" EXACT
    "mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 4a" EXACT
    "Polg disease" EXACT
    "progressive sclerosing poliodystrophy" EXACT
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GARD:5783
ICD10CM:G31.81
MESH:D002549
MIM:203700
NCI:C35257
ORDO:726
SNOMEDCT_US_2023_03_01:20415001
UMLS_CUI:C0205710