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A Japanese SPG4 Patient with a Confirmed De Novo Mutation of the SPAST Gene.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 15 Sept 2020
Nan Haitian, Okamoto Kensho, Gao Lihua, Morishima Yuto, Ichinose Yuta, Koh Kishin, Hashiyada Masaki, Adachi Noboru, Takiyama Yoshihisa
Abstract excerpt
Spastic paraplegia type 4 (SPG4) is caused by mutations of the SPAST gene and is the most common form of autosomal-dominantly inherited pure hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP). We herein report a Japanese patient with SPG4 with a confirmed de novo mutation of SPAST. On exome sequencing and Sanger sequencing, we identified the heterozygous missense mutation p.R460L in the SPAST gene. This mutation was absent in...
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