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Upper motor neuron signs and early onset gait abnormalities in young children with bi-allelic VWA1 variants.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Dec 2022
Gable Dustin L, Mo Alisa, Estrella Elicia, Saffari Afshin, Ghosh Partha S, Ebrahimi-Fakhari Darius
Abstract excerpt
Bi-allelic loss-of-function variants in Von Willebrand factor type A (VWA1) were recently discovered to lead to an early onset motor neuropathy or neuromyopathy. What makes this discovery particularly notable is the high frequency of one of the VWA1 (NM_022834.5) founder variants, c.62_71dup (p.Gly25ArgfsTer74), which nears 0.01% in European populations, and suggests that there may be a wide spectrum of disease...
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