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Five new consanguineous families with horizontal gaze palsy and progressive scoliosis and novel ROBO3 mutations.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 15 Jan 2009
Abu-Amero Khaled K, al Dhalaan Hesham, al Zayed Zayed, Hellani Ali, Bosley Thomas M
Abstract excerpt
Horizontal gaze palsy and progressive scoliosis (HGPPS) is an autosomal recessive neurologic disorder caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in the ROBO3 gene on chromosome 11. We clinically evaluated seven individuals with HGPPS from five previously unreported consanguineous families. We sequenced ROBO3 in all affected individuals, additional unaffected members of each family, and ethnic...
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