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SOD2 as a potential modifier of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy clinical phenotypes.
Journal of neurology - 1 Jul 2012
Brose Rebecca Deering, Avramopoulos Dimitri, Smith Kirby D
Abstract excerpt
X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (XALD), a neurological disorder caused by mutations in the peroxisomal membrane protein gene ABCD1, presents as a rapidly progressing, inflammatory cerebral demyelination (cerebral cases) or a slowly progressing, distal axonopathy (non-cerebral cases). Specific ABCD1 defects do not explain this significant phenotypic variation. Patients have increased plasma and tissue very long...
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