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SUBMITTER: Kalscheuer VM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1180301 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kalscheuer Vera M VM Tao Jiong J Donnelly Andrew A Hollway Georgina G Schwinger Eberhard E Kübart Sabine S Menzel Corinna C Hoeltzenbein Maria M Tommerup Niels N Eyre Helen H Harbord Michael M Haan Eric E Sutherland Grant R GR Ropers Hans-Hilger HH Gécz Jozef J
American journal of human genetics 20030507 6
X-linked West syndrome, also called "X-linked infantile spasms" (ISSX), is characterized by early-onset generalized seizures, hypsarrhythmia, and mental retardation. Recently, we have shown that the majority of the X-linked families with infantile spasms carry mutations in the aristaless-related homeobox gene (ARX), which maps to the Xp21.3-p22.1 interval, and that the clinical picture in these patients can vary from mild mental retardation to severe ISSX with additional neurological abnormaliti ...[more]