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Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation.
Folia neuropathologica - 1 Jan 2005
Gregory Allison, Hayflick Susan J
Abstract excerpt
Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA) describes a group of progressive extrapyramidal disorders with radiographic evidence of focal iron accumulation in the brain, usually in the basal ganglia. Patients previously diagnosed with Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome fall into this category. Mutations in the PANK2 gene account for the majority of NBIA cases and cause an autosomal recessive inborn error of...
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