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Mutation analysis of GM1 gangliosidosis in a Siamese cat from Japan in the 1960s.
Journal of feline medicine and surgery - 1 Dec 2012
Uddin Mohammad M, Tanimoto Takeshi, Yabuki Akira, Kotani Takao, Kuwamura Mitsuru, Chang Hye-Sook, Yamato Osamu
Abstract excerpt
GM1 gangliosidosis is a fatal, progressive neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disease caused by mutations of the β-galactosidase (GLB1) gene. In feline GM1 gangliosidosis, a pathogenic mutation (c.1448G>C) of the feline GLB1 gene was identified in Siamese and Korat cats previously diagnosed with...
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