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Congenital lethal motor neuron disease with a novel defect in ribosome biogenesis.
Neurology - 15 Apr 2014
Butterfield Russell J, Stevenson Tamara J, Xing Lingyan, Newcomb Tara M, Nelson Benjamin, Zeng Wenqi, Li Xiang, Lu Hsiao-Mei, Lu Hong, Farwell Gonzalez Kelly D, Wei Jia-Perng, Chao Elizabeth C, Prior Thomas W, Snyder Pamela J, Bonkowsky Joshua L, Swoboda Kathryn J
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: We describe a novel congenital motor neuron disease with early demise due to respiratory insufficiency with clinical overlap with spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress (SMARD) type 1 but lacking a mutation in the IGHMBP2 gene. METHODS: Exome sequencing was used to identify a de novo mutation in the LAS1L gene in the proband. Pathogenicity of the mutation was validated using a zebrafish...
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