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Fatal infantile leukodystrophy: a severe variant of CACH/VWM syndrome, allelic to chromosome 3q27.
Neurology - 24 Jul 2001
Francalanci P, Eymard-Pierre E, Dionisi-Vici C, Boldrini R, Piemonte F, Virgili R, Fariello G, Bosman C, Santorelli F M, Boespflug-Tanguy O, Bertini E
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OBJECTIVE: To describe clinical and neuropathologic studies and linkage analysis on two sisters with a severe form of leukodystrophy. METHODS: A detailed study was performed on the second sister. Genotyping markers for chromosome 3, including eight additional markers surrounding the vanishing white matter (VWM) locus, were used. RESULTS: During the first year of life, two sisters developed a severe neurologic...
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