Identification of a VPS13A founder mutation in French Canadian families with chorea-acanthocytosis.
Mutations in VPS13A cause chorea-acanthocytosis (ChAc), an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder. VPS13A is located in a tail-to-tail arrangement with GNA14 on chromosome 9q21. ChAc shows substantial allelic heterogeneity, with no single VPS13A mutation causing the majority of cases. We exa...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2005
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