Table 2

(part i) Table summarising findings for each child individually

Child (family)1 (A)2 (A)3 (A)4 (A)5 (A)
Necessary criteria
 Infantile hypotoniaYYYYY
 Profound psychomotor retardationYYYYY
 Convulsive disorders presenting with myoclonias and infantile spasmsYYYYY
 Absence or early loss of visual fixationYYYYY
 Atrophy of optic disc by 2 yearsYYYNot examined after 2 yearsY
 Progressive brain atrophy: affecting cerebellum±brainstemYNormal at 6 monthsNo MRIImages not foundY
Supportive criteria
 Dysmorphic featuresYYYYY
 Oedema of the face and limbsYYYYN
Features contrary to PEHO
 Other features
Diagnosis assigned
 Diagnosis assignedPEHOPEHO-likePEHO-likePEHO-likePEHO
Genetics
 Gene PCLO PCLO PCLO PCLO PCLO
 InheritanceHomozygous Autosomal Recessive (AR)
 Nucleotide changec.2703C>T
c.7080C>G
 Protein changep.(Gln901*Ter)
p.(Tyr2360*Ter)
 ExAC frequency0
 Pathogenicity*Assumed pathogenic and see ref 34
  • Children 1–5 are from family A; children 8–10 are from family B; children 14–16 are from family C.

  • *For each mutation pathogenicity, details are within the paper. Here we give either a reference confirming pathogenicity or where this is unavailable, the SIFT score ().

  • ExAc, Exome Aggregation Consortium; PEHO, progressive encephalopathy, hypsarrhythmia and optic atrophy; SIFT, Scale Invariant Feature Transform.