Alexander disease.

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Alexander disease is a rare and generally fatal disorder of the central nervous system, originally defined by the distinctive neuropathology consisting of abundant Rosenthal fibers within the cytoplasm and processes of astrocytes. More recently, mutations in GFAP, encoding glial fibrillary acidic protein, the major intermediate filament protein of astrocytes, have been identified in nearly all patients. No other...

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