Propensity for paternal inheritance of de novo mutations in Alexander disease.

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De novo dominant mutations in the GFAP gene have recently been associated with nearly all cases of Alexander disease, a rare but devastating neurological disorder. These heterozygous mutations must occur very early in development and be present in nearly all cells in order to be detected by the sequencing methods used. To investigate whether the mutations may have arisen in the parental germ lines, we determined...

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