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Uniparental disomy as a cause of spinal muscular atrophy and progressive myoclonic epilepsy: phenotypic homogeneity due to the homozygous c.125C>T mutation in ASAH1.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Mar 2015
Giráldez Beatriz G, Guerrero-López Rosa, Ortega-Moreno Laura, Verdú Alfonso, Carrascosa-Romero M Carmen, García-Campos Óscar, García-Muñozguren Susana, Pardal-Fernández José Manuel, Serratosa José M
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy and progressive myoclonic epilepsy (SMAPME, OMIM#159950) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by the combination of progressive myoclonic epilepsy and muscular weakness due to lower motor neuron disease. Mutations in ASAH1, previously associated only to Farber disease, have been recently described in seven patients with SMAPME. A homozygous c.125C>T mutation was initially...
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