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MDA5-Associated Neuroinflammation and the Singleton-Merten Syndrome: Two Faces of the Same Type I Interferonopathy Spectrum.
Journal of interferon & cytokine research : the official journal of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research - 1 May 2017
Buers Insa, Rice Gillian I, Crow Yanick J, Rutsch Frank
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In 1973, Singleton and Merten described a new syndrome in 2 female probands with aortic and cardiac valve calcifications, early loss of secondary dentition, and widened medullary cavities of the phalanges. In 1984, Aicardi and Goutières defined a phenotype resembling congenital viral infection with basal ganglia calcification and increased protein content in the cerebrospinal fluid. Between 2006 and 2012,...
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