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A novel lamin A/C gene mutation causing spinal muscular atrophy phenotype with cardiac involvement: report of one case.
BMC neurology - 20 Feb 2015
Iwahara Naotoshi, Hisahara Shin, Hayashi Takashi, Kawamata Jun, Shimohama Shun
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BACKGROUND: Mutations of the lamin A/C gene have been associated with several diseases such as Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, dilated cardiomyopathy and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, referred to as laminopathies. Only one report of spinal muscular atrophy and cardiomyopathy phenotype with lamin A/C gene mutations has been published. The concept that lamin A/C gene mutations cause spinal muscular atrophy has...
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