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Two types of recessive hereditary spastic paraplegia in Roma patients in compound heterozygous state; no ethnically prevalent variant found.
Neuroscience letters - 16 Mar 2020
Meszarosova Anna Uhrova, Seeman Pavel, Jencik Jan, Drabova Jana, Cibochova Renata, Stellmachova Julia, Safka Brozkova Dana
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP or SPG) is a group of rare upper motor neuron diseases. As some ethnically-specific, disease-causing homozygous variants were described in the Czech Roma population, we hypotesised that some prevalent HSP-causing variant could exist in this population. Eight Czech Roma patients were found in a large group of Czech patients with suspected HSP and were tested using gene panel...
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