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Progressive cerebellar ataxia, proximal neurogenic weakness and ocular motor disturbances: hexosaminidase A deficiency with late clinical onset in four siblings.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 1 Jan 1997
Hund E, Grau A, Fogel W, Forsting M, Cantz M, Kustermann-Kuhn B, Harzer K, Navon R, Goebel H H, Meinck H M
Abstract excerpt
Tay-Sachs disease is a genetically determined neurodegenerative disorder, resulting from mutations of the hexosaminidase (Hex) A gene coding for the alpha-subunit of beta-D-N-acetyl-hexosaminidase. Clinically, there is severe encephalomyelopathy leading to death within the first few years of life...
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