Proud syndrome
| Proud syndrome | |
|---|---|
| Other names | Proud Levine Carpenter syndrome |
| Specialty | Medical genetics |
| Symptoms | intellectual disabilities, brain anomalies and seizures |
| Usual onset | Birth |
| Duration | Lifelong |
| Types | It belongs to a group of disorders which are associated with the ARX gene |
| Causes | Genetic mutation |
| Differential diagnosis | Idiopathic intellectual disability |
| Prevention | none |
| Prognosis | Medium |
| Frequency | Very rare, only 37 cases have been described in medical literature |
| Deaths | - |
Proud syndrome is a very rare genetic disorder which is characterized by severe intellectual disabilities, corpus callosum agenesis, epilepsy, and spasticity. It is a type of syndromic X-linked intellectual disability.