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Identification of two novel ALS2 mutations in infantile-onset ascending hereditary spastic paraplegia.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration - 1 Jan 2016
Daud Shakeela, Kakar Naseebullah, Goebel Ingrid, Hashmi Abu Saeed, Yaqub Tahir, Nürnberg Gudrun, Nürnberg Peter, Morris-Rosendahl Deborah J, Wasim Muhammad, Volk Alexander E, Kubisch Christian, Ahmad Jamil, Borck Guntram
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Biallelic mutations of ALS2 cause a clinical spectrum of overlapping autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorders: infantile-onset ascending hereditary spastic paralysis (IAHSP), juvenile primary lateral sclerosis (JPLS), and juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS2). We report on eleven individuals affected with IAHSP from two consanguineous Pakistani families. A combination of linkage analysis with...
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