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Mutations in the palmitoyl protein thioesterase gene causing infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis.
Nature - 17 Aug 1995
Vesa J, Hellsten E, Verkruyse L A, Camp L A, Rapola J, Santavuori P, Hofmann S L, Peltonen L
Abstract excerpt
Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCL) represent a group of common progressive encephalopathies of children which have a global incidence of 1 in 12,500. These severe brain diseases are divided into three autosomal recessive subtypes, assigned to different chromosomal loci. The infantile subtype of NCL (INCL), linked to chromosome 1p32, is characterized by early visual loss and rapidly progressing mental...
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