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The first Italian family with evidence of pyramidal impairment as phenotypic manifestation of Silver syndrome BSCL2 gene mutation.
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology - 1 Jun 2008
Cafforio Gianfranco, Calabrese Rosanna, Morelli Nicola, Mancuso Michelangelo, Piazza Selina, Martinuzzi Andrea, Bassi Maria Teresa, Crippa Francesco, Siciliano Gabriele
Abstract excerpt
Silver syndrome (SPG17) is a rare form of hereditary spastic paraparesis. Its relationship to distal hereditary motor neuropathy (dHMN) type V is underlined by the recent discovery of causative mutation in BSCL2 gene coding for a protein termed seipin, an integral membrane protein of endoplasmic...
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