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Brain dopamine-serotonin vesicular transport disease and its treatment.
The New England journal of medicine - 7 Feb 2013
Rilstone Jennifer J, Alkhater Reem A, Minassian Berge A
Abstract excerpt
We describe a disease encompassing infantile-onset movement disorder (including severe parkinsonism and nonambulation), mood disturbance, autonomic instability, and developmental delay, and we describe evidence supporting its causation by a mutation in SLC18A2 (which encodes vesicular monoamine transporter 2 [VMAT2]). VMAT2 translocates dopamine and serotonin into synaptic vesicles and is essential for motor...
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