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Recessive truncating NALCN mutation in infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy with facial dysmorphism.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Aug 2013
Köroğlu Çiğdem, Seven Mehmet, Tolun Aslihan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy (INAD) is a recessive disease that results in total neurological degeneration and death in childhood. PLA2G6 mutation is the underlying genetic defect, but rare genetic heterogeneity has been demonstrated. One of the five families we studied did not link to PLA2G6 locus, and in the family one of the two affected siblings additionally had atypical features including...
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