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Molecular correlates of epilepsy in early diagnosed and treated Menkes disease.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Oct 2010
Kaler Stephen G, Liew Clarissa J, Donsante Anthony, Hicks Julia D, Sato Susumu, Greenfield Jacquelyn C
Abstract excerpt
Epilepsy is a major feature of Menkes disease, an X-linked recessive infantile neurodegenerative disorder caused by mutations in ATP7A, which produces a copper-transporting ATPase. Three prior surveys indicated clinical seizures and electroencephalographic (EEG) abnormalities in a combined 27 of 29 (93%) symptomatic Menkes disease patients diagnosed at 2 months of age or older. To assess the influence of earlier,...
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