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Metachromatic leukodystrophy and nonverbal learning disability: neuropsychological and neuroradiological findings in heterozygous carriers.
Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence - 1 Mar 2001
Weber Byars A M, McKellop J M, Gyato K, Sullivan T, Franz D N
Abstract excerpt
Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder due to deficiency of the enzyme arylsulfatase A that leads to progressive, diffuse demyelination. The syndrome of nonverbal learning disability has been attributed to white matter abnormality and has been reported in children with this disorder and in some healthy family member carriers of gene. We examined the...
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