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Prenatal testing for late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis.
Annals of neurology - 1 Feb 2000
Berry-Kravis E, Sleat D E, Sohar I, Meyer P, Donnelly R, Lobel P
Abstract excerpt
Classic late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (LINCL) is a neurodegenerative disease in which autofluorescent "curvilinear" storage bodies accumulate in tissues from affected patients. Recently, the LINCL gene (CLN2) has been found to code for a pepstatin-insensitive lysosomal protease whose activity is deficient in LINCL specimens. We report the first 2 cases of successful prenatal testing for LINCL by...
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