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Increased Survival and Partly Preserved Cognition in a Patient With ACO2-Related Disease Secondary to a Novel Variant.
Journal of child neurology - 1 Aug 2017
Srivastava Siddharth, Gubbels Cynthia S, Dies Kira, Fulton Anne, Yu Timothy, Sahin Mustafa
Abstract excerpt
ACO2 encodes aconitase 2, catalyzing the second step of the tricarboxylic acid. To date, there are only 6 reported families with 5 unique ACO2 mutations. Affected individuals can develop intellectual disability, epilepsy, brain atrophy, hypotonia, ataxia, optic atrophy, and retinal degeneration. Here, we report an 18-year-old boy with a novel ACO2 variant discovered on whole-exome sequencing. He presented with...
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