1. Phenotypic variability of aprataxin gene mutations
- Author
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J. M. Warter, Michel Koenig, Maria-Ceu Moreira, Christine Tranchant, and Marie-Céline Fleury
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Adult ,Male ,Apraxias ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Nonsense mutation ,Nonsense ,Mutation, Missense ,Biology ,Gene mutation ,Compound heterozygosity ,Ocular Motility Disorders ,Cerebellum ,medicine ,Humans ,Missense mutation ,Oculomotor apraxia ,media_common ,Aprataxin ,Genetics ,Nuclear Proteins ,Peripheral Nervous System Diseases ,Syndrome ,medicine.disease ,DNA-Binding Proteins ,Phenotype ,Codon, Nonsense ,Mutation (genetic algorithm) ,Ataxia ,Female ,Neurology (clinical) ,Atrophy ,Nervous System Diseases - Abstract
The clinical and genetic features of three non-Portuguese and non-Japanese patients with aprataxin gene mutations are reported. Patient 1 came from Italy and presented with typical ataxia with ocular motor apraxia (OMA). She was homozygous for the W279X nonsense mutation, which is associated with the Portuguese founding haplotype. Patients 2 and 3 were French siblings and did not present with either OMA or hypoalbuminemia. They were compound heterozygous for the nonsense W279X mutation and a missense K197Q mutation.
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- 2003