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Mutation of the CLN6 gene in teenage-onset progressive myoclonus epilepsy.
Pediatric neurology - 1 Sept 2012
Andrade Danielle M, Paton Tara, Turnbull Julie, Marshall Christian R, Scherer Stephen W, Minassian Berge A
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Progressive myoclonus epilepsies are severe, intractable, and neurodegenerative. They afflict patients of all ages, but more commonly adolescents, and comprise the main differential diagnosis of common juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Genetic or minimally invasive pathologic diagnoses are available for many but not all teenage-onset progressive myoclonus epilepsies. We describe a multiplex family with autosomal...
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