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Clinical, pathologic, and mutational spectrum of dystroglycanopathy caused by LARGE mutations.
Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology - 1 May 2014
Meilleur Katherine G, Zukosky Kristen, Medne Livija, Fequiere Pierre, Powell-Hamilton Nina, Winder Thomas L, Alsaman Abdulaziz, El-Hattab Ayman W, Dastgir Jahannaz, Hu Ying, Donkervoort Sandra, Golden Jeffrey A, Eagle Ralph, Finkel Richard, Scavina Mena, Hood Ian C, Rorke-Adams Lucy B, Bönnemann Carsten G
Abstract excerpt
Dystroglycanopathies are a subtype of congenital muscular dystrophy of varying severity that can affect the brain and eyes, ranging from Walker-Warburg syndrome with severe brain malformation to milder congenital muscular dystrophy presentations with affected or normal cognition and later onset. Mutations in dystroglycanopathy genes affect a specific glycoepitope on α-dystroglycan; of the 14 genes implicated to...
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