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DNAJC6 is responsible for juvenile parkinsonism with phenotypic variability.
Parkinsonism & related disorders - 1 Mar 2013
Köroğlu Çiğdem, Baysal Leyla, Cetinkaya Murat, Karasoy Hatice, Tolun Aslıhan
Abstract excerpt
Familial parkinson's disease is both clinically and genetically heterogeneous. By mapping the disease locus with a lod score of 5.13 to a < 3.5 Mbp region at 1p31.3 in a consanguineous family and subsequent exome sequencing analysis, we identified homozygous truncating mutation p.Q734X in DNAJC6. Four members of the family were afflicted with juvenile parkinsonism that presented with mental retardation, pyramidal...
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