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A Novel MAG Variant Causes Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia in a Consanguineous Pakistani Family.
Genes - 13 Sept 2024
Akram Rabia, Anwar Haseeb, Muzaffar Humaira, Turchetti Valentina, Lau Tracy, Vona Barbara, Makhdoom Ehtisham Ul Haq, Iqbal Javed, Mahmood Baig Shahid, Hussain Ghulam, Efthymiou Stephanie, Houlden Henry
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Background and objectives: Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is characterized by unsteady gait, motor incoordination, speech impairment, abnormal eye movement, progressive spasticity and lower limb weakness. Spastic paraplegia 75 (SPG75) results from a mutation in the gene that encodes myelin associated glycoprotein (MAG). Only a limited number of MAG variants associated with SPG75 in families of European,...
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