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Manitoba aboriginal kindred with original cerebro-oculo- facio-skeletal syndrome has a mutation in the Cockayne syndrome group B (CSB) gene.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Apr 2000
Meira L B, Graham J M, Greenberg C R, Busch D B, Doughty A T, Ziffer D W, Coleman D M, Savre-Train I, Friedberg E C
Abstract excerpt
Cerebro-oculo-facio-skeletal (COFS) syndrome is a rapidly progressive neurological disorder leading to brain atrophy with calcification, cataracts, microcornea, optic atrophy, progressive joint contractures, and growth failure. Cockayne syndrome (CS) is a recessively inherited neurodegenerative disorder characterized by low-to-normal birth weight; growth failure; brain dysmyelination with calcium deposits;...
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