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Unverricht-Lundborg disease with cystatin B gene abnormalities.
Pediatric neurology - 1 Jan 2002
Kagitani-Shimono Kuriko, Imai Katsumi, Okamoto Nobuhiko, Ono Jiro, Okada Shintaro
Abstract excerpt
The clinical, neurophysiologic, and genetic findings in two Japanese patients with the Unverricht-Lundborg type of progressive myoclonus epilepsy are described. The cystatin B gene of Patient 1 exhibited expansion of the dodecamer (12-mer) repeat located in the 5' region and a point mutation (G-->A mutation) in exon 2. The cystatin B gene of Patient 2 exhibited homozygous expansion of the dodecamer repeat. Both...
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