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Novel mutation in the ALS2 gene in juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Annals of neurology - 1 Nov 2005
Kress Julia A, Kühnlein Peter, Winter Pia, Ludolph Albert C, Kassubek Jan, Müller Ulrich, Sperfeld Anne-Dorte
Abstract excerpt
We present a 32-year-old Turkish male with juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 2 and a previously unrecognized homozygous deletion in exon 4 of the ALS2 gene (553delA). Disease progression is more rapid than in the ALS2 phenotype cases described to date. The patient's consanguineous parents carry the mutation in the heterozygous state as do his two unaffected brothers.
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