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Genetic analysis of the FUS/TLS gene in essential tremor.
European journal of neurology - 1 Mar 2013
Parmalee N, Mirzozoda K, Kisselev S, Merner N, Dion P, Rouleau G, Clark L, Louis E D
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Although essential tremor (ET) has a genetic basis, specific genes have not been identified. Recently, in a large ET family (FET1) from Quebec, a non-sense mutation (p.Q290X) in the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) gene fused in sarcoma/translated in liposarcoma (FUS/TLS) was identified by exome sequencing. No confirmatory studies have been published. METHODS: Two-hundred and fifty-nine...
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