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Mutational spectrum of the SPAST and ATL1 genes in Korean patients with hereditary spastic paraplegia.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 15 Oct 2015
Park Hyunwoong, Kang Seong-Ho, Park Seungman, Kim So Yeon, Seo Soo Hyun, Lee Seung Jun, Lee Jung Ae, Cho Sung Im, Sung Jung-Joon, Lee Kwang-Woo, Kim Ji Yeon, Park Sung Sup, Seong Moon-Woo
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a genetically heterogeneous group of diseases characterized by insidiously progressive lower-extremity weakness and spasticity. Spastic paraplegia 4 (SPAST) is the most common type of uncomplicated autosomal dominant HSP (40% of such cases), and spastic paraplegia 3A (ATL1) is the second most common. Here, we conducted mutational analysis of the SPAST and/or ATL1 genes in...
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