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Compound heterozygosity in the SPG4 gene causes hereditary spastic paraplegia.
Clinical genetics - 1 Mar 2008
Pantakani D V K, Zechner U, Arygriou L, Pauli S, Sauter S M, Mannan A U
Abstract excerpt
The SPG4 gene is frequently mutated in autosomal dominant form of hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP). We report that the compound heterozygous sequence variants S44L, a known polymorphism, and c.1687G>A, a novel mutation in SPG4 cause a severe form of HSP in a patient. The family members carrying solely c.1687G>A mutation are asymptomatic for HSP. The reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)...
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