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Atypical Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome: is the WRN locus a modifier?
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Oct 2014
Lessel Davor, Saha Bidisha, Hisama Fuki, Kaymakamzade Bahar, Nurlu Gulay, Gursoy-Özdemir Yasemin, Thiele Holger, Nürnberg Peter, Martin George M, Kubisch Christian, Oshima Junko
Abstract excerpt
We describe a 28-year-old Turkish man with consanguineous parents who presented with an aged appearance with prematurely gray hair and scleroderma-like skin, spastic paraplegia, and apparent disability. The proband and each of his parents were heterozygous for a mutation in WRN, which could not explain his symptoms. Exome sequencing of the proband's blood DNA showed a homozygous c.626-1G > C mutation in intron 5...
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