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GENATLAS PHENOTYPE
last update : 30-06-2012
Symbol JS
Location Xq22.1
Name opticoacoustic nerve atrophy with dementia
Other name(s) Jensen syndrome
Corresponding gene TIMM8A
Main clinical features
  • characterized by profound sensorineural hearing loss with onset in infancy, followed in adolescence by progressive optic nerve atrophy with loss of vision and in adulthood by progressive dementia
  • generalized degenerative disease of the central nervous system
  • Genetic determination sex linked
    Function/system disorder neurology
    psychiatric disorder
    eye
    Type disease
    Gene product
    Name DDP protein (TIMM8A)
    Remark(s) X-linked recessive, allelic to MRXS8