lethal congenital contracture syndrome lethal congenital contracture syndrome 12 disease_ontology A lethal congenital contracture syndrome characterized by onset in utero that results in death in utero or during the perinatal period unless there is significant medical intervention, including mechanical ventilation and parenteral/ tube-feeding; however these patients also die in infancy or in the first years of life that has_material_basis_in homozygous mutation in the dystonin gene on chromosome 6p12. MIM:621511 DOID:0061268