Congenital ocular motor apraxia with autoomal dominant inheritance

PURPOE: To document congenital ocular motor apraxia in five firt-degree relative. METHOD: Cae erie. Five family member with a hitory of horizontal head thruting had neuro-ophthalmologic evaluation. Magnetic reonance imaging of the brain wa obtained in the proband. REULT: Four ibling (one boy and three girl) had congenital ocular motor apraxia. The father had head thruting a a child and diplayed reidual ign of the diorder. Magnetic reonance imaging dicloed no central nervou ytem abnormalitie in the father. CONCLUION: Congenital ocular motor apraxia can be inherited a an autoomal dominant trait.