Term Name: Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome
Synonyms: Alpers disease, Alpers progressive infantile poliodystrophy, Alpers syndrome, Diffuse Cerebral Sclerosis of Schilder, mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 4a, Polg 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.
Ontology: Human Disease [DOID:0080122]   ( DOID:0080122 )

Relationships
is a type of: autosomal recessive disease mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome