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Positional candidate gene cloning of CLN1.
Advances in genetics - 1 Jan 2001
Hofmann S L, Das A K, Lu J Y, Soyombo A A
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the CLN1 gene encoding palmitoyl-protein thioesterase (PPT) underlie the recessive neurodegenerative disorder, infantile Batten disease, or infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (INCL). The CLN1 gene was mapped to chromosome 1p32 in the vicinity of a microsatellite marker HY-TM1 in a cohort of Finnish INCL families, and mapping of the PPT gene to the CLN1 critical region (and the discovery of...
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