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Clinical exome sequencing identifies a novel TUBB4A mutation in a child with static hypomyelinating leukodystrophy.
Pediatric neurology - 1 Jun 2014
Purnell Shawn M, Bleyl Steven B, Bonkowsky Joshua L
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BACKGROUND: Leukodystrophies are a large group of inherited diseases of central nervous system myelin. There are few treatments, and most patients do not receive a final genetic diagnosis. PATIENT: We report a novel presentation of a female child with hypotonia, global developmental delay, and rotatory nystagmus. Brain MRI demonstrated profound hypomyelination and minimal or no atrophy in the brain stem or...
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