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Exome sequencing of a Pakistani family with spastic paraplegia identified an 18 bp deletion in the cytochrome B5 domain of FA2H.
Neurological research - 1 Feb 2021
Abbas Safdar, Brugger Beatrice, Zubair Muhammad, Gul Sana, Blatterer Jasmin, Wenninger Julian, Rehman Khurram, Tatrai Benjamin, Khan Muzammil Ahmad, Windpassinger Christian
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs) are a diverse class of neurodegenerative disorders that mainly affect the corticospinal tract of the body and result in various clinical conditions such as lower limb spasticity and muscle weakness in the lower extremities. Worldwide, more than 70 chromosomal loci/genes have been reported to be associated with HSPs, out of which, six genes viz., ATL1, FA2H, GJC2, AP4E1,...
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