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A de novo TUBB4A mutation in a patient with hypomyelination mimicking Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease.
Brain & development - 1 Mar 2015
Shimojima Keiko, Okumura Akihisa, Ikeno Mitsuru, Nishimura Akira, Saito Akira, Saitsu Hirotomo, Matsumoto Naomichi, Yamamoto Toshiyuki
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Hypomyelinating leukoencephalopathy is a heterogeneous disorder caused by mutations in several-different genes. Clinical entity of hypomyelination with atrophy of the basal ganglia and cerebellum (H-ABC) is one of them. METHOD: A male patient showed pendular nystagmus, infantile hypotonia, an abnormal pattern of brain auditory evoked potential, and hypomyelination on brain magnetic resonance imaging,...
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