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The neuronal ceroid‐lipofuscinoses (Batten disease): A new class of lysosomal storage diseases
1 Jun 1999
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The neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses (Batten disease) are a group of severe neurodegenerative disorders characterized clinically by visual loss, seizures and psychomotor degeneration, and pathologically by loss of neurons and lysosomal accumulation of autofluorescent storage material resembling ageing pigment. To date, eight genetic loci have been identified (CLN1-8). Four CLN genes have been isolated (CLN1, CLN2,...
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