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Congenital myasthenic syndrome secondary to pathogenic variants in the SLC5A7 gene: report of two cases.
BMC medical genomics - 12 Aug 2024
Muntadas Javier A, Hyland Martin R, Martínez Maria Del Rosario Ortolá, Young Jaime N, Chong Jessica X, Bamshad Michael J, Maselli Ricardo A
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BACKGROUND: Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes (CMS) are rare genetic diseases, which share as a common denominator muscle fatigability due to failure of neuromuscular transmission. A distinctive clinical feature of presynaptic CMS variants caused by defects of the synthesis of acetylcholine is the association with life-threatening episodes of apnea. One of these variants is caused by mutations in the SLC5A7 gene,...
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