Pseudo-TORCH syndrome is an autoinflammatory disorder which is caused by autosmal recessive mutations of the OCLN and USP18 genes. The disease starts antenatal and end lethal in infancy. Symptoms include intracranial hemorrhage, calcification, brain malformations, liver dysfunction, and occasionally thrombocytopenia
The prevalence of the whole group is less than 1:1,000,000.
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