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Late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis: quantitative description of the clinical course in patients with CLN2 mutations.
American journal of medical genetics - 1 Nov 2002
Steinfeld Robert, Heim Peter, von Gregory Henning, Meyer Kerstin, Ullrich Kurt, Goebel Hans H, Kohlschütter Alfried
Abstract excerpt
We examined 26 individuals with clinical and electron microscopic signs of late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (LINCL). In 22 cases, we found both pathogenic alleles. Sixteen patients exclusively carried either one or a combination of the two common mutations R208X and IVS5-1G > C. In the remaining cases, four missense mutations could be detected, of which R127Q, N286S, and T353P represent novel,...
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