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[Congenital cerebral hypomyelination---Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease and associated disorders].
No to hattatsu = Brain and development - 1 Nov 2011
Inoue Ken, Iwaki Akiko, Kurosawa Kenji, Takanashi Jun-ichi, Deguchi Kimiko, Yamamoto Toshiyuki, Osaka Hitoshi
Abstract excerpt
Congenital cerebral hypomyelination includes a group of genetic disorders, such as Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD), and is characterized by hypomyelination of the cerebral white matter. Until recently, no classification system was available for congenital hypomyelination disorders that are clinically and genetically excluded for PMD. However, the establishment of new disease entities with gene discoveries has...
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