Klaas J. Wierenga, M.D.

  1. Chaudhri EN, Abbott JM, Islam NN, Weber CA, Coban MA, Bilgili A, Squire JD, Mantia S, Wierenga KJ, Caulfield TR. Statistical Mechanics Metrics in Pairing and Parsing In Silico and Phenotypic Data of a Novel Genetic NFkappaB1 (c.T638A) Variant. Genes (Basel). 2023 Sep 24; 14 (10) Epub 2023 Sept 24
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  2. Pinto E Vairo F, Kemppainen JL, Vitek CRR, Whalen DA, Kolbert KJ, Sikkink KJ, Kroc SA, Kruisselbrink T, Shupe GF, Knudson AK, Burke EM, Loftus EC, Bandel LA, Prochnow CA, Mulvihill LA, Thomas B, Gable DM, Graddy CB, Garzon GGM, Ekpoh IU, Porquera EMC, Fervenza FC, Hogan MC, El Ters M, Warrington KJ, Davis JM 3rd, Koster MJ, Orandi AB, Basiaga ML, Vella A, Kumar S, Creo AL, Lteif AN, Pittock ST, Tebben PJ, Abate EG, Joshi AY, Ristagno EH, Patnaik MS, Schimmenti LA, Dhamija R, Sabrowsky SM, Wierenga KJ, Keddis MT, Samadder NJJ, Presutti RJ, Robinson SI, Stephens MC, Roberts LR, Faubion WA Jr, Driscoll SW, Wong-Kisiel LC, Selcen D, Flanagan EP, Ramanan VK, Jackson LM, Mauermann ML, Ortega VE, Anderson SA, Aoudia SL, Klee EW, McAllister TM, Lazaridis KN. Implementation of genomic medicine for rare disease in a tertiary healthcare system: Mayo Clinic Program for Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases (PRaUD). J Transl Med. 2023 Jun 23; 21 (1):410 Epub 2023 June 23
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  3. Morales-Rosado JA, Schwab TL, Macklin-Mantia SK, Foley AR, Pinto E Vairo F, Pehlivan D, Donkervoort S, Rosenfeld JA, Boyum GE, Hu Y, Cong ATQ, Lotze TE, Mohila CA, Saade D, Bharucha-Goebel D, Chao KR, Grunseich C, Bruels CC, Littel HR, Estrella EA, Pais L, Kang PB, Zimmermann MT, Lupski JR, Lee B, Schellenberg MJ, Clark KJ, Wierenga KJ, Bonnemann CG, Klee EW. Bi-allelic variants in HMGCR cause an autosomal-recessive progressive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. Am J Hum Genet. 2023 Jun 1; 110 (6):989-997 Epub 2023 May 10
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  4. Klee EW, Cousin MA, Pinto E Vairo F, Morales-Rosado JA, Macke EL, Jenkinson WG, Ferrer A, Schultz-Rogers LE, Olson RJ, Oliver GR, Sigafoos AN, Schwab TL, Zimmermann MT, Urrutia RA, Kaiwar C, Gupta A, Blackburn PR, Boczek NJ, Prochnow CA, Lowy RJ, Mulvihill LA, McAllister TM, Aoudia SL, Kruisselbrink TM, Gunderson LB, Kemppainen JL, Fisher LJ, Tarnowski JM, Hager MM, Kroc SA, Bertsch NL, Agre KE, Jackson JL, Macklin-Mantia SK, Murphree MI, Rust LM, Summer Bolster JM, Beck SA, Atwal PS, Ellingson MS, Barnett SS, Rasmussen KJ, Lahner CA, Niu Z, Hasadsri L, Ferber MJ, Marcou CA, Clark KJ, Pichurin PN, Deyle DR, Morava-Kozicz E, Gavrilova RH, Dhamija R, Wierenga KJ, Lanpher BC, Babovic-Vuksanovic D, Farrugia G, Schimmenti LA, Stewart AK, Lazaridis KN. Impact of integrated translational research on clinical exome sequencing. Genet Med. 2023 Feb; 25 (2):100359
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  5. Muthusamy K, Sivadasan A, Dixon L, Sudhakar S, Thomas M, Danda S, Wszolek ZK, Wierenga K, Dhamija R, Gavrilova R. Adult-onset leukodystrophies: a practical guide, recent treatment updates, and future directions. Front Neurol. 2023; 14:1219324 Epub 2023 July 26
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  6. Koga S, Ali S, Baker MC, Wierenga KJ, Dompenciel M, Dickson DW, Wszolek ZK. A novel clinicopathologic entity causing rapidly progressive cerebellar ataxia? Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2022 Dec; 105:149-153 Epub 2022 Nov 11
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  7. Minatogawa M, Unzaki A, Morisaki H, Syx D, Sonoda T, Janecke AR, Slavotinek A, Voermans NC, Lacassie Y, Mendoza-Londono R, Wierenga KJ, Jayakar P, Gahl WA, Tifft CJ, Figuera LE, Hilhorst-Hofstee Y, Maugeri A, Ishikawa K, Kobayashi T, Aoki Y, Ohura T, Kawame H, Kono M, Mochida K, Tokorodani C, Kikkawa K, Morisaki T, Kobayashi T, Nakane T, Kubo A, Ranells JD, Migita O, Sobey G, Kaur A, Ishikawa M, Yamaguchi T, Matsumoto N, Malfait F, Miyake N, Kosho T. Clinical and molecular features of 66 patients with musculocontractural Ehlers-Danlos syndrome caused by pathogenic variants in CHST14 (mcEDS-CHST14). J Med Genet. 2022 Sep; 59 (9):865-877 Epub 2021 Nov 23
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  8. Hanna Al-Shaikh R, Milanowski LM, Holla VV, Kurihara K, Yadav R, Kamble N, Muthusamy B, Bellad A, Koziorowski D, Szlufik S, Hoffman-Zacharska D, Fujioka S, Tsuboi Y, Ross OA, Wierenga K, Uitti RJ, Wszolek Z, Pal PK. PLA2G6-associated neurodegeneration in four different populations-case series and literature review. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2022 Aug; 101:66-74 Epub 2022 June 30
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  9. Macke EL, Morales-Rosado JA, Macklin-Mantia SK, Schmitz CT, Oskarsson B, Klee EW, Wierenga KJ. Functional validation of a novel AAAS variant in an atypical presentation of Allgrove syndrome. Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2022 Jul; 10 (7):e1966 Epub 2022 May 15
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  10. Johannesen KM, Gardella E, Gjerulfsen CE, Bayat A, Rouhl RPW, Reijnders M, Whalen S, Keren B, Buratti J, Courtin T, Wierenga KJ, Isidor B, Piton A, Faivre L, Garde A, Moutton S, Tran-Mau-Them F, Denomme-Pichon AS, Coubes C, Larson A, Esser MJ, Appendino JP, Al-Hertani W, Gamboni B, Mampel A, Mayorga L, Orsini A, Bonuccelli A, Suppiej A, Van-Gils J, Vogt J, Damioli S, Giordano L, Moortgat S, Wirrell E, Hicks S, Kini U, Noble N, Stewart H, Asakar S, Cohen JS, Naidu SR, Collier A, Brilstra EH, Li MH, Brew C, Bigoni S, Ognibene D, Ballardini E, Ruivenkamp C, Faggioli R, Afenjar A, Rodriguez D, Bick D, Segal D, Coman D, Gunning B, Devinsky O, Demmer LA, Grebe T, Pruna D, Cursio I, Greenhalgh L, Graziano C, Singh RR, Cantalupo G, Willems M, Yoganathan S, Goes F, Leventer RJ, Colavito D, Olivotto S, Scelsa B, Andrade AV, Ratke K, Tokarz F, Khan AS, Ormieres C, Benko W, Keough K, Keros S, Hussain S, Franques A, Varsalone F, Gronborg S, Mignot C, Heron D, Nava C, Isapof A, Borlot F, Whitney R, Ronan A, Foulds N, Somorai M, Brandsema J, Helbig KL, Helbig I, Ortiz-Gonzalez XR, Dubbs H, Vitobello A, Anderson M, Spadafore D, Hunt D, Moller RS, Rubboli G, PURA study group. PURA-Related Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy: Phenotypic and Genotypic Spectrum. Neurol Genet. 2021 Dec; 7 (6):e613 Epub 2021 Nov 15
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  11. Muthusamy K, Ferrer A, Klee EW, Wierenga KJ, Gavrilova RH. Clinicoradiographic and genetic features of cerebral small vessel disease indicate variability in mode of inheritance for monoallelic HTRA1 variants. Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2021 Oct; 9 (10):e1799 Epub 2021 Sept 12
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  12. Koike Y, Jansen-West KR, Hanna Al-Shaikh R, Carlomagno Y, Song Y, Dunmore JA, LeDoux MS, Friedman JH, Pena AB, Uitti RJ, Zaremba J, van Gerpen JA, Pfeiffer RF, Veerappan V, Aiba I, Hashimoto R, Giles SS, Shah JS, Tipton PW, Huang JF, Wierenga KJ, Aasly J, Fryer JD, Petrucelli L, Wszolek ZK, Prudencio M. Urine levels of the polyglutamine ataxin-3 protein are elevated in patients with spinocerebellar ataxia type 3. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2021 Aug; 89:151-154 Epub 2021 July 17
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  13. Klee EW, Cousin MA, Pinto E Vairo F, Morales-Rosado JA, Macke EL, Jenkinson WG, Ferrer A, Schultz-Rogers LE, Olson RJ, Oliver GR, Sigafoos AN, Schwab TL, Zimmermann MT, Urrutia RA, Kaiwar C, Gupta A, Blackburn PR, Boczek NJ, Prochnow CA, Lowy RJ, Mulvihill LA, McAllister TM, Aoudia SL, Kruisselbrink TM, Gunderson LB, Kemppainen JL, Fisher LJ, Tarnowski JM, Hager MM, Kroc SA, Bertsch NL, Agre KE, Jackson JL, Macklin-Mantia SK, Murphree MI, Rust LM, Summer Bolster JM, Beck SA, Atwal PS, Ellingson MS, Barnett SS, Rasmussen KJ, Lahner CA, Niu Z, Hasadsri L, Ferber MJ, Marcou CA, Clark KJ, Pichurin PN, Deyle DR, Morava-Kozicz E, Gavrilova RH, Dhamija R, Wierenga KJ, Lanpher BC, Babovic-Vuksanovic D, Farrugia G, Schimmenti LA, Stewart AK, Lazaridis KN. Impact of integrated translational research on clinical exome sequencing. Genet Med. 2021 Mar; 23 (3):498-507 Epub 2020 Nov 04
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  14. Chai G, Webb A, Li C, Antaki D, Lee S, Breuss MW, Lang N, Stanley V, Anzenberg P, Yang X, Marshall T, Gaffney P, Wierenga KJ, Chung BH, Tsang MH, Pais LS, Lovgren AK, VanNoy GE, Rehm HL, Mirzaa G, Leon E, Diaz J, Neumann A, Kalverda AP, Manfield IW, Parry DA, Logan CV, Johnson CA, Bonthron DT, Valleley EMA, Issa MY, Abdel-Ghafar SF, Abdel-Hamid MS, Jennings P, Zaki MS, Sheridan E, Gleeson JG. Mutations in Spliceosomal Genes PPIL1 and PRP17 Cause Neurodegenerative Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia with Microcephaly. Neuron. 2021 Jan 20; 109 (2):241-256.e9 Epub 2020 Nov 20
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  15. Bryant L, Li D, Cox SG, Marchione D, Joiner EF, Wilson K, Janssen K, Lee P, March ME, Nair D, Sherr E, Fregeau B, Wierenga KJ, Wadley A, Mancini GMS, Powell-Hamilton N, van de Kamp J, Grebe T, Dean J, Ross A, Crawford HP, Powis Z, Cho MT, Willing MC, Manwaring L, Schot R, Nava C, Afenjar A, Lessel D, Wagner M, Klopstock T, Winkelmann J, Catarino CB, Retterer K, Schuette JL, Innis JW, Pizzino A, Luttgen S, Denecke J, Strom TM, Monaghan KG, Yuan ZF, Dubbs H, Bend R, Lee JA, Lyons MJ, Hoefele J, Gunthner R, Reutter H, Keren B, Radtke K, Sherbini O, Mrokse C, Helbig KL, Odent S, Cogne B, Mercier S, Bezieau S, Besnard T, Kury S, Redon R, Reinson K, Wojcik MH, Ounap K, Ilves P, Innes AM, Kernohan KD, Costain G, Meyn MS, Chitayat D, Zackai E, Lehman A, Kitson H, Martin MG, Martinez-Agosto JA, Nelson SF, Palmer CGS, Papp JC, Parker NH, Sinsheimer JS, Vilain E, Wan J, Yoon AJ, Zheng A, Brimble E, Ferrero GB, Radio FC, Carli D, Barresi S, Brusco A, Tartaglia M, Thomas JM, Umana L, Weiss MM, Gotway G, Stuurman KE, Thompson ML, McWalter K, Stumpel CTRM, Stevens SJC, Stegmann APA, Tveten K, Vollo A, Prescott T, Fagerberg C, Laulund LW, Larsen MJ, Byler M, Lebel RR, Hurst AC, Dean J, Schrier Vergano SA, Norman J, Mercimek-Andrews S, Neira J, Van Allen MI, Longo N, Sellars E, Louie RJ, Cathey SS, Brokamp E, Heron D, Snyder M, Vanderver A, Simon C, de la Cruz X, Padilla N, Crump JG, Chung W, Garcia B, Hakonarson HH, Bhoj EJ, DDD Study//Care4Rare Canada Consortium//CAUSES Study//Undiagnosed Diseases Network. Histone H3.3 beyond cancer: Germline mutations in Histone 3 Family 3A and 3B cause a previously unidentified neurodegenerative disorder in 46 patients. Sci Adv. 2020 Dec; 6 (49) Epub 2020 Dec 02
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  16. Schultz-Rogers L, Masuho I, Pinto E Vairo F, Schmitz CT, Schwab TL, Clark KJ, Gunderson L, Pichurin PN, Wierenga K, Martemyanov KA, Klee EW. Haploinsufficiency as a disease mechanism in GNB1-associated neurodevelopmental disorder. Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2020 Nov; 8 (11):e1477 Epub 2020 Sept 12
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  17. Prudencio M, Garcia-Moreno H, Jansen-West KR, Al-Shaikh RH, Gendron TF, Heckman MG, Spiegel MR, Carlomagno Y, Daughrity LM, Song Y, Dunmore JA, Byron N, Oskarsson B, Nicholson KA, Staff NP, Gorcenco S, Puschmann A, Lemos J, Januário C, LeDoux MS, Friedman JH, Polke J, Labrum R, Shakkottai V, McLoughlin HS, Paulson HL, Konno T, Onodera O, Ikeuchi T, Tada M, Kakita A, Fryer JD, Karremo C, Gomes I, Caviness JN, Pittelkow MR, Aasly J, Pfeiffer RF, Veerappan V, Eggenberger ER, Freeman WD, Huang JF, Uitti RJ, Wierenga KJ, Marin Collazo IV, Tipton PW, van Gerpen JA, van Blitterswijk M, Bu G, Wszolek ZK, Giunti P, Petrucelli L. Toward allele-specific targeting therapy and pharmacodynamic marker for spinocerebellar ataxia type 3. Sci Transl Med. 2020 Oct 21; 12(566).
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  18. Riley LG, Rudinger-Thirion J, Frugier M, Wilson M, Luig M, Alahakoon TI, Nixon CY, Kirk EP, Roscioli T, Lunke S, Stark Z, Wierenga KJ, Palle S, Walsh M, Higgs E, Arbuckle S, Thirukeswaran S, Compton AG, Thorburn DR, Christodoulou J. The expanding LARS2 phenotypic spectrum: HLASA, Perrault syndrome with leukodystrophy, and mitochondrial myopathy. Hum Mutat. 2020 Aug; 41 (8):1425-1434
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  19. Srinivasan A, Zhou Y, Scordino T, Prabhu S, Wierenga A, Simon G, Wierenga KJ, Thompson J, Shah R, Sinha AA. IDH1 mutated acute myeloid leukemia in a child with metaphyseal chondromatosis with D-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria. Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2020 Aug; 37 (5):431-437 Epub 2020 Mar 13
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  20. Nabais Sa MJ, El Tekle G, de Brouwer APM, Sawyer SL, Del Gaudio D, Parker MJ, Kanani F, van den Boogaard MH, van Gassen K, Van Allen MI, Wierenga K, Purcarin G, Elias ER, Begtrup A, Keller-Ramey J, Bernasocchi T, van de Wiel L, Gilissen C, Venselaar H, Pfundt R, Vissers LELM, Theurillat JP, de Vries BBA. De Novo Variants in SPOP Cause Two Clinically Distinct Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Am J Hum Genet. 2020 Mar 5; 106 (3):405-411 Epub 2020 Feb 27
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  21. Blackburn PR, Sullivan AE, Gerassimou AG, Kleinendorst L, Bersten DC, Cooiman M, Harris KG, Wierenga KJ, Klee EW, van Gerpen JA, Ross OA, van Haelst MM, Whitelaw ML, Caulfield TR, Atwal PS. Functional Analysis of the SIM1 Variant p.G715V in 2 Patients With Obesity. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2020 Jan 1; 105 (1)
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  23. Nizon M, Laugel V, Flanigan KM, Pastore M, Waldrop MA, Rosenfeld JA, Marom R, Xiao R, Gerard A, Pichon O, Le Caignec C, Gerard M, Dieterich K, Truitt Cho M, McWalter K, Hiatt S, Thompson ML, Bezieau S, Wadley A, Wierenga KJ, Egly JM, Isidor B. Variants in MED12L, encoding a subunit of the mediator kinase module, are responsible for intellectual disability associated with transcriptional defect. Genet Med. 2019 Dec; 21 (12):2713-2722 Epub 2019 June 03
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  25. Mohassel P, Liewluck T, Hu Y, Ezzo D, Ogata T, Saade D, Neuhaus S, Bolduc V, Zou Y, Donkervoort S, Medne L, Sumner CJ, Dyck PJB, Wierenga KJ, Tennekoon G, Finkel RS, Chen J, Winder TL, Staff NP, Foley AR, Koch M, Bonnemann CG. Dominant collagen XII mutations cause a distal myopathy. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2019 Oct; 6 (10):1980-1988 Epub 2019 Sept 11
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  26. Richter JE Jr, Samreen A, Vadlamudi C, Helmi H, Mohammad AN, Wierenga K, Hines S, Atwal PS, Caulfield TR. Genomic Observations of a Rare/Pathogenic SMAD3 Variant in Loeys?Dietz Syndrome 3 Confirmed by Protein Informatics and Structural Investigations. Medicina (Kaunas). 2019 May 15; 55(5).
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  28. Costantini A, Valta H, Baratang NV, Yap P, Bertola DR, Yamamoto GL, Kim CA, Chen J, Wierenga KJ, Fanning EA, Escobar L, McWalter K, McLaughlin H, Willaert R, Begtrup A, Alm JJ, Reinhardt DP, Makitie O, Campeau PM. Novel fibronectin mutations and expansion of the phenotype in spondylometaphyseal dysplasia with "corner fractures". Bone. 2019 Apr; 121:163-171 Epub 2018 Dec 30
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  30. Sharkia R, Wierenga KJ, Kessel A, Azem A, Bertini E, Carrozzo R, Torraco A, Goffrini P, Ceccatelli Berti C, McCormick ME, Plecko B, Klein A, Abela L, Hengel H, Schols L, Shalev S, Khayat M, Mahajnah M, Spiegel R. Clinical, radiological, and genetic characteristics of 16 patients with ACO2 gene defects: Delineation of an emerging neurometabolic syndrome. J Inherit Metab Dis. 2019 Mar; 42 (2):264-275 Epub 2019 Jan 28
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  31. Bavle A, Shah R, Gross N, Gavula T, Ruiz-Elizalde A, Wierenga K, McNall-Knapp R. Encephalocraniocutaneous Lipomatosis. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2018 Oct; 40 (7):553-554
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  32. Shakir A, Wadley AF, Purcarin G, Wierenga KJ. The first case of deafness-dystonia syndrome due to compound heterozygous variants in FITM2. Clin Case Rep. 2018 Sep; 6 (9):1815-1817 Epub 2018 July 26
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  33. Au PYB, Goedhart C, Ferguson M, Breckpot J, Devriendt K, Wierenga K, Fanning E, Grange DK, Graham GE, Galarreta C, Jones MC, Kini U, Stewart H, Parboosingh JS, Kline AD, Innes AM, Care for Rare Canada Consortium. Phenotypic spectrum of Au-Kline syndrome: a report of six new cases and review of the literature. Eur J Hum Genet. 2018 Sep; 26 (9):1272-1281 Epub 2018 June 14
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  34. Stove SI, Blenski M, Stray-Pedersen A, Wierenga KJ, Jhangiani SN, Akdemir ZC, Crawford D, McTiernan N, Myklebust LM, Purcarin G, McNall-Knapp R, Wadley A, Belmont JW, Kim JJ, Lupski JR, Arnesen T. A novel NAA10 variant with impaired acetyltransferase activity causes developmental delay, intellectual disability, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Eur J Hum Genet. 2018 Sep; 26 (9):1294-1305 Epub 2018 May 10
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  36. Wang CC, Ortiz-Gonzalez XR, Yum SW, Gill SM, White A, Kelter E, Seaver LH, Lee S, Wiley G, Gaffney PM, Wierenga KJ, Rasband MN. betaIV Spectrinopathies Cause Profound Intellectual Disability, Congenital Hypotonia, and Motor Axonal Neuropathy. Am J Hum Genet. 2018 Jun 7; 102 (6):1158-1168 Epub 2018 May 31
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