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Frameshift mutations of the ARX gene in familial Ohtahara syndrome.
Epilepsia - 1 Sept 2010
Kato Mitushiro, Koyama Norihisa, Ohta Masayasu, Miura Kiyokuni, Hayasaka Kiyoshi
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PURPOSE: Ohtahara syndrome is one of the most severe and earliest forms of epilepsy and is frequently associated with brain malformations, such as hemimegalencephaly. Recently, longer expansion of the first polyalanine tract of ARX was found to be causative for Ohtahara syndrome without brain malformation, whereas premature termination mutations of ARX were found to cause severe brain malformations, such as...
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