This report describes striatonigral degeneration, infantile, mitochondrial, one of several diseases associated with the human mitochondrially-encoded gene MT-ATP6. See the human disease model report for mitochondrial complex V disorders, MT-ATP6-related (FBhh0000376) for information on experimental results using Drosophila models of this and related diseases. See MIM:516060 for variants of MT-ATP6 associated with striatonigral degeneration, infantile, mitochondrial.
[updated Aug. 2016 by FlyBase; FBrf0222196]
Clinical features include developmental arrest, dysphagia, and choreoathetosis (involuntary movements).
Mitochondrially inherited infantile bilateral striatal necrosis is caused by mutation in the ATP synthase-6 gene (MT-ATP6).
Many to one: 2 human to 1 Drosophila; the additional orthologous human gene is MT-ATP8.