XK-related neurodegenerative disease
XK-related neurodegenerative disease
Definition
A form of neuroacanthocytosis and is characterized clinically by a Huntington's disease-like phenotype with an involuntary hyperkinetic movement disorder, psychiatric manifestations and cognitive alterations, and biochemically by absence of the Kx antigen and by weak expression of the Kell antigens.
Also known as McLeod neuroacanthocytosis syndrome, McLeod syndrome, MLS, X-linked McLeod syndrome, XK disease — per MONDO