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GENATLAS PHENOTYPE
last update : 19-06-2010
Symbol PHGDH
Location 1p12
Name phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase deficiency
Corresponding gene PHGDH
Main clinical features
  • severe infantile form, with congenital microcephaly, intractable seizures (showing a limited response to standard anti-epileptic drugs) and severe psychomotor retardation
  • also classical West syndrome or a wide variation of clinical seizures such as tonic-clonic seizures, tonic seizures, atonic seizures, gelastic seizures and myoclonic seizures; EEG patterns also vary as both hypsarithmia and multifocal seizure activity evolving towards Lennox–Gastaux syndrome; on MRI, hypomyelination and a severe lack of white matter
  • Genetic determination autosomal recessive
    Function/system disorder metabolism/aminoacids
    neurology
    Type disease
    Remark(s)
  • deficiency decreases the overall capacity for l-serine synthesis, which affects cerebrospinal fluid d-serine levels in infants and children (PMID: 20966073))