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SUBMITTER: Ahmed R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3750216 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ahmed Rebekah R Guerreiro Rita R Rohrer Jonathan D JD Guven Gamze G Rossor Martin N MN Hardy John J Fox Nick C NC
Journal of the neurological sciences 20130628 1-2
We report a family with a novel CSF1R mutation causing hereditary diffuse leucoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids. Family members presented with neuropsychiatric and behavioural symptoms, with subsequent development of motor symptoms and gait disturbance. MRI brain showed extensive white matter change with a frontal predominance and associated atrophy in two members of the family. Genetic testing revealed a novel mutation c.2342C>T (p.A781V) in the CSF1R gene in two brothers of the family. Thi ...[more]