Identification and Characterization of Genes in the Lafora Disease Pathway

Lafora disease (LD) is an adolescent-onset autosomal recessive progressive myoclonus epilepsy. The main clinical symptoms of the disease are worsening seizures, neurodegeneration and usually death within ten years. No therapeutics or interventions exist for this devastating disease. Mutations in tw...

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Main Author: Turnbull, Julie
Other Authors: Scherer, Stephen
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/65493