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An Emerging Female Phenotype with Loss-of-Function Mutations in the Aristaless-Related Homeodomain Transcription Factor ARX.
Human mutation - 1 May 2017
Mattiske Tessa, Moey Ching, Vissers Lisenka E, Thorne Natalie, Georgeson Peter, Bakshi Madhura, Shoubridge Cheryl
Abstract excerpt
The devastating clinical presentation of X-linked lissencephaly with abnormal genitalia (XLAG) is invariably caused by loss-of-function mutations in the Aristaless-related homeobox (ARX) gene. Mutations in this X-chromosome gene contribute to intellectual disability (ID) with co-morbidities including seizures and movement disorders such as dystonia in affected males. The detection of affected females with...
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