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Batten disease

Background

Batten disease: Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis Type 1 (infantile); Type 2 (late infantile); Type 3 (Juvenile); NCL; Santavuori disease; Santavuori-Haltia disease (Infantile); Jansky-Bielschowsky disease (Late Infantile Type); Variant late infantile type; Vogt-Spielmeyer disease (Juvenile type); Kufs disease (Adult type)

The group of diseases known as Batten disease (after the British Paediatrician who first described it in 1903) or the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs) are rare, genetic, progressive neurodegenerative, metabolic diseases that occur in children and adults worldwide.

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Medical text written January 2008, Batten Disease Family Association. Approved January 2008 by Dr Ruth Williams, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Guy's Hospital, London, UK and Sara Mole, Reader in Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, UK.

 

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