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Age-related cognitive decline in hereditary spastic paraparesis linked to chromosome 2p.
Neurology - 11 Apr 2000
Byrne P C, Mc Monagle P, Webb S, Fitzgerald B, Parfrey N A, Hutchinson M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether cognitive decline is part of the phenotype of SPG4-linked hereditary spastic paraparesis (HSP) and to determine whether cognitive changes are present in haplotype carriers before the onset of paraparesis. BACKGROUND: The major locus for "pure" autosomal dominant HSP is the SPG4 locus on chromosome 2p. Cognitive impairment linked to this locus has been described in two families....
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