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Lyngstadaas syndrome
Other names	Steroid dehydrogenase deficiency-dental anomalies syndrome
This condition is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner.

Lyngstadaas syndrome, also known as severe dental aberrations in familial steroid dehydrogenase deficiency, is a rare autosomal recessive liver disease involving an enzyme (steroid dehydrogenase) deficiency and dental anomalies. The disease is named after the Norwegian professor Ståle Petter Lyngstadaas.

Cause

Lyngstadaas syndrome is an autosomal recessive liver disease.

Diagnosis

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Management

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Epidemiology

Office of Rare Diseases listed Lyngstadaas syndrome as a "rare disease". This means that Lyngstadaas syndrome, or a subtype of Lyngstadaas syndrome, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.

Orphanet, a consortium of European partners, currently defines a condition rare when if affects 1 person per 2,000. They list Lyngstadaas syndrome as a "rare disease".

See also

• Rare disease

References

1. "Steroid dehydrogenase deficiency dental anomalies | Disease | Living With | Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center (GARD) – an NCATS Program". rarediseases.info.nih.gov. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
2. Steroid dehydrogenase deficiency - dental anomalies Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatments and Causes - RightDiagnosis.com
3. RESERVED, INSERM US14 -- ALL RIGHTS. "Orphanet: Lyngstadaas syndrome". www.orpha.net. Retrieved 2016-03-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
4. RESERVED, INSERM US14-- ALL RIGHTS. "Orphanet: Steroid dehydrogenase deficiency dental anomalies syndrome". www.orpha.net. Retrieved 26 September 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

External links

• Rare syndromes
• Syndromes affecting teeth
• Rare genetic syndromes