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Mucolipidosis type IV: novel MCOLN1 mutations in Jewish and non-Jewish patients and the frequency of the disease in the Ashkenazi Jewish population.
Human mutation - 1 May 2001
Bargal R, Avidan N, Olender T, Ben Asher E, Zeigler M, Raas-Rothschild A, Frumkin A, Ben-Yoseph O, Friedlender Y, Lancet D, Bach G
Abstract excerpt
The gene MCOLN1 is mutated in Mucolipidosis type IV (MLIV), a neurodegenerative, recessive, lysosomal storage disorder. The disease is found in relatively high frequency among Ashkenazi Jews due to two founder mutations that comprise 95% of the MLIV alleles in this population [Bargal et al., 2000...
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