About 90-95 per cent of the patients have a severe clinical course leading to death in early childhood. ATP7A mutations associated with MD show great variety, from cytogenetic abnormalities to partial gene deletions to single base-pair changes. As a lethal X-linked trait, an estimated one-third of n
Prenatal diagnosis of Canavan disease
β Scribed by Reuben Matalon; Kimberlee Michals-Matalon
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 90 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0197-3851
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