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Biotin-responsive basal ganglia disease maps to 2q36.3 and is due to mutations in SLC19A3.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Jul 2005
Zeng Wen-Qi, Al-Yamani Eiman, Acierno James S, Slaugenhaupt Susan, Gillis Tammy, MacDonald Marcy E, Ozand Pinar T, Gusella James F
Abstract excerpt
Biotin-responsive basal ganglia disease (BBGD) is a recessive disorder with childhood onset that presents as a subacute encephalopathy, with confusion, dysarthria, and dysphagia, and that progresses to severe cogwheel rigidity, dystonia, quadriparesis, and eventual death, if left untreated. BBGD symptoms disappear within a few days with the administration of high doses of biotin (5-10 mg/kg/d). On brain magnetic...
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