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Clinical and genetic analysis of two wolfram syndrome families with high occurrence of wolfram syndrome and diabetes type II: a case report.
BMC medical genetics - 14 Jan 2020
Sobhani Maryam, Tabatabaiefar Mohammad Amin, Ghafouri-Fard Soudeh, Rajab Asadollah, Hojjat Asal, Kajbafzadeh Abdol-Mohammad, Noori-Daloii Mohammad Reza
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BACKGROUND: Mutations of the WFS1 gene are responsible for most cases of Wolfram syndrome (WS), a rare, recessively inherited neurodegenerative disorder characterized by juvenile-onset non-autoimmune diabetes mellitus and optic atrophy. Variants of WFS1 are also associated with non-syndromic hearing loss and type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Our study adds to literature significant associations between WS and...
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