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Clinical and Genetic Study on a Chinese Patient with Infantile Onset Epileptic Encephalopathy carrying a PPP3CA Null Variant: a case report.
BMC pediatrics - 27 Jun 2020
Yang Sai, Shen Xiang, Kang Qingyun, Kuang Xiaojun, Ning Zeshu, Liu Shulei, Liao Hongmei, Cao Zhenhua, Yang Liming
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: PPP3CA gene encodes the catalytic subunit A of a calcium-dependent protein phosphatase called calcineurin. However, two distinct mechanisms in PPP3CA deficiency would cause two clinically different diseases. Gain-of-function mutations in the autoinhibitory domain at the C-terminus would cause ACCIID that stands for arthrogryposis, cleft palate, craniosynostosis and impaired intellectual development....
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