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Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and periventricular nodular heterotopia in a Spanish family with a single FLNA mutation.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Mar 2006
Gómez-Garre P, Seijo M, Gutiérrez-Delicado E, Castro del Río M, de la Torre C, Gómez-Abad C, Morales-Corraliza J, Puig M, Serratosa J M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) comprises a group of hereditary connective tissue disorders. Periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH) is a human neuronal migration disorder characterised by seizures and conglomerates of neural cells around the lateral ventricles of the brain, caused by FLNA mutations. FLNA encodes filamin A, an actin binding protein involved in cytoskeletal organisation. The...
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