Chanarin-Dorfman syndrome (CDS) is a rare autosomal recessive nonlysosomal inborn error of neutral lipid metabolism. Patients present with a nonbullous erythrodermic form of ichthyosis (NCIE; see 242300) with variable involvement of other organs, such as liver, central nervous system, eyes, and ears. Intracellular triacylglycerol droplets are present in most tissues, and diagnosis can be confirmed by a simple blood smear, in which the characteristic lipid droplets are observed in the cytoplasm of granulocytes (summary by Lefevre et al., 2001).
Another form of neutral lipid storage disease without ichthyosis but with myopathy (NLSDM; 610717) is caused by mutation in the PNPLA2 gene (609059). [from OMIM]
- MedGen UID:
- 82780
- •Concept ID:
- C0268238
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- Disease or Syndrome