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Idiopathic basal ganglia calcification-associated PDGFRB mutations impair the receptor signalling.
Journal of cellular and molecular medicine - 1 Jan 2015
Arts Florence A, Velghe Amélie I, Stevens Monique, Renauld Jean-Christophe, Essaghir Ahmed, Demoulin Jean-Baptiste
Abstract excerpt
Platelet-derived growth factors (PDGF) bind to two related receptor tyrosine kinases, which are encoded by the PDGFRA and PDGFRB genes. Recently, heterozygous PDGFRB mutations have been described in patients diagnosed with idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (IBGC or Fahr disease), a rare inherited neurological disorder. The goal of the present study was to determine whether these mutations had a positive or...
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