developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 42
Findings
No curated finding names developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 42 yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Any early infantile epileptic encephalopathy in which the cause of the disease is a mutation in the CACNA1A gene.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0014917), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
- Inheritance
- Autosomal dominant inheritance
- Onset and course
- Congenital onset · Infantile onset · Neonatal onset
HPO, annotations 2026-09-02
Features
15 features
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.
- Epileptic encephalopathyHPOHP:0200134
- 5 of 5 reported patients
- Global developmental delayHPOHP:0001263
- 5 of 5 reported patients
- Intellectual disabilityHPOHP:0001249
- 5 of 5 reported patients
- Convulsive status epilepticusHPOHP:0032660
- 4 of 5 reported patients
- AtaxiaHPOHP:0001251
- 3 of 5 reported patients
- Bilateral tonic-clonic seizureHPOHP:0002069
- 3 of 5 reported patients
- Myoclonic seizureHPOHP:0032794
Show the remaining 3
- StrabismusHPOHP:0000486
- 1 of 5 reported patients
- Tonic seizureHPOHP:0032792
- 1 of 5 reported patients
- EEG abnormalityHPOHP:0002353
Genes
1 gene
Germline variants in the gene encoding each protein, as classified by GenCC submitters, each in their own words. Limited, disputed and refuted submissions are listed too.
- CACNA1AHGNC:1388
- Strong · Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae) · Autosomal dominant · 2023
- Strong · G2P · Autosomal dominant · 2025
- Moderate · Ambry Genetics · Autosomal dominant · 2018
Where it sits
Other names
8 names
Resolves to: developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 42
- Also called
- CACNA1A early infantile epileptic encephalopathyDEE42developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 42early infantile epileptic encephalopathy caused by mutation in CACNA1AEIEE42epileptic encephalopathy, early infantile, 42epileptic encephalopathy, early infantile, 42; EIEE42epileptic encephalopathy, early infantile, type 42