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Mutations in POMT1 are found in a minority of patients with Walker-Warburg syndrome.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 15 Feb 2005
Currier Sophie C, Lee Christine K, Chang Bernard S, Bodell Adria L, Pai G Shashidhar, Job Leela, Lagae Lieven G, Al-Gazali Lihadh I, Eyaid Wafaa M, Enns Greg, Dobyns William B, Walsh Christopher A
Abstract excerpt
Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS) is an autosomal recessive disorder of infancy characterized by hydrocephalus, agyria, retinal dysplasia, congenital muscular dystrophy, and over migration of neurons through a disrupted pial surface resulting in leptomeningeal heterotopia. Although previous work identified mutations in the o-mannosyl transferase, POMT1, in 6 out of 30 WWS families [Beltran-Valero de Bernabe et al.,...
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