label: X-linked intellectual disability, Schimke type
label_lc: x-linked intellectual disability, schimke type
description: "X-linked mental retardation, Schimke type, is characterized by intellectual deficit, growth retardation with short stature, deafness and ophthalmoplegia. Choreoathetosis with muscle spasticity generally appears during childhood. It has been described in four boys, three of whom were from the same family. Transmission is X-linked."