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160 kb deletion in ISPD unmasking a recessive mutation in a patient with Walker-Warburg syndrome.
European journal of medical genetics - 1 Dec 2013
Czeschik Johanna Christina, Hehr Ute, Hartmann Britta, Lüdecke Hermann-Josef, Rosenbaum Thorsten, Schweiger Bernd, Wieczorek Dagmar
Abstract excerpt
Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS) is a severe muscular dystrophy with eye and brain malformations. On a molecular level, WWS is a disorder of the O-linked glycosylation of α-dystroglycan and therefore referred to as one of the dystroglycanopathies. The disease family of muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathy (MDDG) contains a spectrum of severe to mild disorders, designated as MDDG type A to C. WWS, as the most severe...
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