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Clinical and genetic study of a large Italian family linked to SPG12 locus.
Neurology - 12 Nov 2002
Orlacchio A, Kawarai T, Rogaeva E, Song Y Q, Paterson A D, Bernardi G, St George-Hyslop P H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Seven loci for autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia (ADHSP) have been mapped. To date, two families of SPG12 (chromosome 19q13) have been analyzed; however, there is not enough clinical information on SPG12 to establish locus-phenotype correlations. METHODS: The authors studied 60 individuals from a large Italian family with ADHSP, in which 16 members in four generations were affected....
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