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Mutant torsinA, responsible for early-onset torsion dystonia, forms membrane inclusions in cultured neural cells.
Human molecular genetics - 22 May 2000
Hewett J, Gonzalez-Agosti C, Slater D, Ziefer P, Li S, Bergeron D, Jacoby D J, Ozelius L J, Ramesh V, Breakefield X O
Abstract excerpt
Early-onset torsion dystonia is a hereditary movement disorder thought to be caused by decreased release of dopamine into the basal ganglia, without apparent neuronal degeneration. Recent cloning of the gene responsible for this disease, TOR1A (DYT1), identified the encoded protein, torsinA, as a...
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