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Seizure-genotype relationship in Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy.
Brain & development - 1 Jan 2008
Yoshioka Mieko, Higuchi Yoshihisa, Fujii Tatsuya, Aiba Hideo, Toda Tatsushi
Abstract excerpt
Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD) is an autosomal recessive disorder prevalent in Japan, characterized by cobblestone lissencephaly and dystrophic changes in skeletal muscle, resulting in mental retardation, epilepsy and motor impairment. FCMD patients in Japan carry at least one copy of an ancestral founder mutation, a 3 kb insertion in a 3'-untranslated region, that results in a reduction in...
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