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T Meyer1, A Schwan, J S Dullinger, J Brocke, K-T Hoffmann, C H Nolte, A Hopt, U Kopp, P Andersen, J T Epplen, P Linke.
Abstract
The authors report a 73-year-old patient with a natural history of early-onset ALS for 49 years presenting with limb and bulbar amyotrophy and a pyramidal syndrome. Analysis of the locus SPG4 identified a heterozygous duplication mutation (c.304_309dupGCCTCG) within exon 1 of the spastin gene. We propose that sequence alterations of spastin may comprise a genetic risk factor in a greater spectrum of motor neuron disorders including clinical variants of ALS.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16009903 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000167130.31618.0a
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurology ISSN: 0028-3878 Impact factor: 9.910