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Conservative amino acid substitution in the myelin proteolipid protein of jimpymsd mice.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 1 Jan 1990
Gencic S, Hudson L D
Abstract excerpt
The capacity for synthesizing and maintaining a compact myelin sheath is destroyed in a number of inborn errors of myelin metabolism. One class of hypomyelinating mutations, which displays an X-linked pattern of inheritance, is distinguished by marked disturbances in oligodendrocyte differentiation. We have defined the molecular defect in one such mutant that lacks mature oligodendrocytes, the X-linked jimpy...
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