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Clinical and molecular study in a long-surviving patient with MLASA syndrome due to novel PUS1 mutations.
Neurogenetics - 1 Jan 2016
Cao Michelangelo, Donà Marta, Valentino M Lucia, Valentino Lucia, Semplicini Claudio, Maresca Alessandra, Cassina Matteo, Torraco Alessandra, Galletta Eva, Manfioli Valeria, Sorarù Gianni, Carelli Valerio, Stramare Roberto, Bertini Enrico, Carrozzo Rosalba, Salviati Leonardo, Pegoraro Elena
Abstract excerpt
Myopathy-lactic acidosis-sideroblastic anemia (MLASA) syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disease. We studied a 43-year-old female presenting since childhood with mild cognitive impairment and sideroblastic anemia. She later developed hepatopathy, cardiomyopathy, and insulin-dependent diabetes. Muscle weakness appeared in adolescence and, at age 43, she was unable to walk. Two novel different mutations in the...
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