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Familial Ohtahara syndrome due to a novel ARX gene mutation.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Dec 2010
Giordano L, Sartori S, Russo S, Accorsi P, Galli J, Tiberti A, Bettella E, Marchi M, Vignoli A, Darra F, Murgia A, Bernardina B Dalla
Abstract excerpt
Recently, it has been reported that longer expansions of the polyalanine tract of the ARX gene could cause an early infantile encephalopathy with suppression burst pattern and that the length of this repeat region could be related to the severity of the electroclinical picture. We describe the history of two male individuals, born from monozygotic twin sisters, with Ohtahara syndrome (OS) that evolved into West...
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