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Primary Brain Calcification Causal PiT2 Transport-Knockout Variants can Exert Dominant Negative Effects on Wild-Type PiT2 Transport Function in Mammalian Cells.
Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN - 1 Feb 2017
Larsen Frederik Tibert, Jensen Nina, Autzen Jacob Kwasi, Kongsfelt Iben Boutrup, Pedersen Lene
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Primary brain calcification (PBC) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by calcium-phosphate deposits in the basal ganglia and often also other areas of the brain. The prevalent clinical manifestations are cognitive impairment, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and movement disorders. In recent years, monoallelic variants in SLC20A2, which encodes the type III sodium-dependent inorganic phosphate (Pi)...
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