Batten's syndrome is a recessively inherited neurodegenerative condition involving a lysosomal storage defect. It is caused by abnormal storage of cerebral lipofuscins.
There are a number of other names that are used to refer to this condition, depending on the age of onset:
In addition this condition is sometimes known as familial amaurotic familial idiocy or as lipofuscinosis.
The gene involved in this syndrome is on chromosome 16.
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