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Novel mutation in Sjogren-Larsson syndrome is associated with divergent neurologic phenotypes.
Journal of child neurology - 1 Oct 2013
Davis Kathleen, Holden Kenton R, S'Aulis Dana, Amador Claudia, Matheus M Gisele, Rizzo William B
Abstract excerpt
Sjögren-Larsson syndrome is an inherited disorder of lipid metabolism caused by mutations in the ALDH3A2 gene that codes for fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase, which results in accumulation of fatty aldehydes and alcohols and is characterized by ichthyosis, intellectual disability, and spastic diplegia/quadriplegia. The authors describe 2 unrelated Honduran patients who carried the same novel homozygous nonsense...
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