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The first biallelic missense mutation in the FXN gene in a consanguineous Turkish family with Charcot-Marie-Tooth-like phenotype.
Neurogenetics - 1 Jan 2020
Candayan Ayşe, Yunisova Gulshan, Çakar Arman, Durmuş Hacer, Başak A Nazlı, Parman Yeşim, Battaloğlu Esra
Abstract excerpt
Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease is the most common inherited neuropathy with a prevalence of 1 in 2500 individuals worldwide. Here, we report three Turkish siblings from consanguineous parents presenting with a CMT-like phenotype who carry a homozygous c.493C>T, p.Arg165Cys mutation in the FXN gene that is the only known causative gene for Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA). The identified missense mutation has been...
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