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Leukoencephalopathy With Vanishing White Matter




  OMIM 603896


Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter (VWM disease) is an Autosomal Recessive neurological disease. The cause of the disease are mutations in any of the 5 Gene s encoding subunits of the Translation Initiation Factor EIF2B : EIF2B1, EIF2B2, EIF2B3, EIF2B4, or EIF2B5.

Adult-onset VWM disease can present with Psychosis and may be hard to differentiate from Schizophrenia .1


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