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Biallelic mutations in SNX14 cause a syndromic form of cerebellar atrophy and lysosome-autophagosome dysfunction.
Nature genetics - 1 May 2015
Akizu Naiara, Cantagrel Vincent, Zaki Maha S, Al-Gazali Lihadh, Wang Xin, Rosti Rasim Ozgur, Dikoglu Esra, Gelot Antoinette Bernabe, Rosti Basak, Vaux Keith K, Scott Eric M, Silhavy Jennifer L, Schroth Jana, Copeland Brett, Schaffer Ashleigh E, Gordts Philip L S M, Esko Jeffrey D, Buschman Matthew D, Field Seth J, Napolitano Gennaro, Abdel-Salam Ghada M, Ozgul R Koksal, Sagıroglu Mahmut Samil, Azam Matloob, Ismail Samira, Aglan Mona, Selim Laila, Mahmoud Iman G, Abdel-Hadi Sawsan, Badawy Amera El, Sadek Abdelrahim A, Mojahedi Faezeh, Kayserili Hulya, Masri Amira, Bastaki Laila, Temtamy Samia, Müller Ulrich, Desguerre Isabelle, Casanova Jean-Laurent, Dursun Ali, Gunel Murat, Gabriel Stacey B, de Lonlay Pascale, Gleeson Joseph G
Abstract excerpt
Pediatric-onset ataxias often present clinically as developmental delay and intellectual disability, with prominent cerebellar atrophy as a key neuroradiographic finding. Here we describe a new clinically distinguishable recessive syndrome in 12 families with cerebellar atrophy together with ataxia, coarsened facial features and intellectual disability, due to truncating mutations in the sorting nexin gene SNX14,...
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