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Intragenic modifiers of hereditary spastic paraplegia due to spastin gene mutations.
Neurogenetics - 1 Sept 2004
Svenson Ingrid K, Kloos Mark T, Gaskell P Craig, Nance Martha A, Garbern James Y, Hisanaga Shin-ichi, Pericak-Vance Margaret A, Ashley-Koch Allison E, Marchuk Douglas A
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a genetically heterogeneous neurodegenerative disease characterized by wide variability in phenotypic expression, both within and among families. The most-common cause of autosomal dominant HSP is mutation of the gene encoding spastin, a protein of uncertain function. We report the existence of intragenic polymorphisms of spastin that modify the HSP phenotype. One (S44L) is...
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