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TFG associated hereditary spastic paraplegia: an addition to the phenotypic spectrum.
Neurogenetics - 1 Apr 2017
Tariq Huma, Naz Sadaf
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs) constitute movement disorders with extreme lower limb spasticity caused by axonopathies of the upper motor neurons. We describe two siblings affected with a recessive form of movement disorder. Whole-exome sequencing revealed a homozygous missense mutation c.64 C>T (p.Arg22Trp) in TFG as cause of the disorder. Comparison of the phenotype of the patients of this study, with...
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