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.Steroid dehydrogenase deficiency - dental anomalies Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatments and Causes - RightDiagnosis.com The disease is named after the Norwegian professor Ståle Petter Lyngstadaas.
Cause Lyngstadaas syndrome is an autosomal recessive liver disease. 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
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