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Proteolipid protein gene duplications causing Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease: molecular mechanism and phenotypic manifestations.
Annals of neurology - 1 May 1999
Inoue K, Osaka H, Imaizumi K, Nezu A, Takanashi J, Arii J, Murayama K, Ono J, Kikawa Y, Mito T, Shaffer L G, Lupski J R
Abstract excerpt
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) is an X-linked disorder characterized by dysmyelination of the central nervous system (CNS) caused by mutations involving the proteolipid protein gene (PLP). In addition to point and frameshift mutations in the coding region, duplications involving the entire PLP have been recognized recently as a major genetic abnormality causing PMD. We devised an interphase fluorescence in...
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