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Acetazolamide-responsive exercise-induced episodic ataxia associated with a novel homozygous DARS2 mutation.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Oct 2011
Synofzik Matthis, Schicks Julia, Lindig Tobias, Biskup Saskia, Schmidt Thorsten, Hansel Jochen, Lehmann-Horn Frank, Schöls Ludger
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BACKGROUND: Leukoencephalopathy with brain stem and spinal cord involvement and brain lactate elevation (LBSL) was recently shown to be caused by mutations in the DARS2 gene, encoding a mitochondrial aspartyl-tRNA synthetase. So far, affected individuals were invariably compound heterozygous for...
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