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A balanced translocation disrupts SYNGAP1 in a patient with intellectual disability, speech impairment, and epilepsy with myoclonic absences (EMA).
Epilepsia - 1 Dec 2011
Klitten Laura L, Møller Rikke S, Nikanorova Marina, Silahtaroglu Asli, Hjalgrim Helle, Tommerup Niels
Abstract excerpt
Epilepsy with myoclonic absences (EMA) is a rare form of generalized epilepsy occurring in childhood and is often difficult to treat. The underlying etiology of EMA is unknown in the majority of patients. Herein, we describe a patient with EMA and intellectual disability who carries a de novo balanced translocation: t(6;22)(p21.32;q11.21). We mapped the translocation breakpoints by fluorescence in situ...
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