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Clustering of Juvenile Canavan disease in an Indian community due to population bottleneck and isolation: genomic signatures of a founder event.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Jan 2023
Kotambail Ananthapadmanabha, Selvam Pavalan, Muthusamy Karthik, Thomas Maya, Sudhakar Sniya Valsa, Ghati Chetan, Danda Sumita, Arunachal Gautham
Abstract excerpt
Mild/juvenile Canavan disease (M/JCD) is less frequently reported in the literature and little is known about its pathogenetic mechanisms. We report a comprehensive investigation into the pathogenetic mechanism of a novel NM_000049.4(ASPA):c.526G>A variant in two families. The families belong to Telugu Devanga Chettiar community (TDC) from southern India. TDC has a complex history of migration from their...
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