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Novel mutations in the arylsulfatase A gene in eight Italian families with metachromatic leukodystrophy.
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia - 1 May 2006
Bertelli M, Gallo S, Buda A, Cecchin S, Fabbri A, Lapucci C, Andrighetto G, Sidoti V, Lorusso L, Pandolfo M
Abstract excerpt
Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease caused by arylsulfatase A (ARSA) deficiency. We analysed the ARSA gene in eight unrelated Italian families with different clinical variants of MLD and identified three novel mutations: two Ser406Gly, (Glu329Ter) associated with late infantile MLD and one (Leu52Pro) with juvenile MLD. Only one family carried a pseudodeficiency...
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