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First case of genetically confirmed CLN3 disease in Chinese with cDNA sequencing revealing pathogenicity of a novel splice site variant.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 1 Nov 2018
Lau Nike Kwai Cheung, Ching Chor Kwan, Lee Hencher Han Chih, Chak Wai Kwong Mario, Kwan Shing Ng, Hanchard Neil A, Mak Chloe Miu
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BACKGROUND: Juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (CLN3 disease) is a hereditary progressive neurodegenerative disease well documented among Caucasians, but such clinical data and genetic characterization is lacking among Asian populations. PATIENT AND METHODS: A 13-year-old Chinese girl presented for diagnostic evaluation with retinitis pigmentosa, generalised tonic-clonic seizure and cerebellar ataxia....
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