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The first reported case of Menkes disease caused by an Alu insertion mutation.
Brain & development - 1 Mar 2007
Gu YanHong, Kodama Hiroko, Watanabe Shigero, Kikuchi Nobuyuki, Ishitsuka Ineo, Ozawa Hiroshi, Fujisawa Chie, Shiga Katsuaki
Abstract excerpt
We present the first reported case of Menkes disease caused by an Alu element insertion mutation that interfered with splicing regulatory elements. A whole young AluYa5a2 element, which was 382-bp long, was identified within exon 9 of the ATP7A gene, and all of exon 9 was aberrantly skipped in th...
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