Case report of a novel homozygous splice site mutation in PLA2G6 gene causing infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy in a Sudanese family

BACKGROUND: Infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy (INAD) is a rare hereditary neurological disorder caused by mutations in PLA2G6. The disease commonly affects children below 3 years of age and presents with delay in motor skills, optic atrophy and progressive spastic tetraparesis. Studies of INAD in Afri...

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Autores principales: Elsayed, Liena E. O., Mohammed, Inaam N., Hamed, Ahlam A. A., Elseed, Maha A., Salih, Mustafa A. M., Yahia, Ashraf, Siddig, Rayan A., Amin, Mutaz, Koko, Mahmoud, Elbashir, Mustafa I., Ibrahim, Muntaser E., Brice, Alexis, Ahmed, Ammar E., Stevanin, Giovanni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5941609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29739362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12881-018-0592-y

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5941609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29739362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12881-018-0592-y

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