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Significant expressivity of Wolfram syndrome: phenotypic assessment of two known and one novel mutation in the WFS1 gene in three Iranian families.
Molecular biology reports - 1 Nov 2014
Sobhani Maryam, Tabatabaiefar Mohammad Amin, Rajab Asadollah, Kajbafzadeh Abdol-Mohammad, Noori-Daloii Mohammad Reza
Abstract excerpt
Wolfram syndrome also known as DIDMOAD (Diabetes Insipidus, Diabetes Mellitus, Optic Atrophy, and Deafness) is a rare neurodegenerative autosomal recessive disorder. There is evidence of variable expressivity both in patients and heterozygous carriers. In this study, we describe three Persian Wolfram syndrome families with differences in the age of onset, signs and symptoms of the disease. We clinically evaluated...
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