Endocrinology · Endocrinology / Pediatric endocrinology
Alström syndrome
also: Alström–Hallgren syndrome
Ciliopathy with childhood obesity, blindness, deafness, cardiomyopathy and diabetes.
- Specialty
- Endocrinology
- Subspecialty
- Endocrinology / Pediatric endocrinology
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected equally; Children: yes, infancy
- Gene(s) involved
- ALMS1
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Alström–Hallgren syndrome
Etiology & mechanism
ALMS1 dysfunction of cilia and centrosomes.
Gene(s) involved (1)
Symptoms & signs (10)
In plain terms, someone with Alström syndrome may experience the following — click any to explore related syndromes:
Same gene(s)
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Overlapping symptoms
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Shares symptoms with
2 shared
Aniridia-Wilms tumor-genitourinary anomalies-retardation syndrome
nystagmus, obesity
2 shared
Chanarin–Dorfman syndrome
fatty liver, hearing loss
2 shared
Congenital generalized lipodystrophy
fatty liver, hypertriglyceridemia
2 shared
Familial partial lipodystrophy
fatty liver, hypertriglyceridemia
1 shared
Acquired cerebellar syndrome
nystagmus
1 shared
Action myoclonus–renal failure syndrome
renal failure
1 shared
Adie tonic pupil syndrome
photophobia
1 shared
Alport syndrome with diffuse leiomyomatosis
hearing loss
1 shared
Anomalous left coronary artery from pulmonary artery
dilated cardiomyopathy
1 shared
Bardet–Biedl syndrome
obesity
Shares genes with
None.
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