Therefore, according to the presenting phenotype, patients were originally clustered into the six different NCL subtypes [4], consisting of congenital (CLN10), infantile (CLN1), late infantile (CLN2), variant late infantile (CLN5, CLN6, CLN7 and CLN8), juvenile (CLN3) and adult (CLN4) NCL. This evidence concerns the gene CLN8 and neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis.