AP4 deficiency: A novel form of neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation?

Agathe Roubertie1, Nelson Hieu1, Charles-Joris Roux1

  • 1Département de Neuropédiatrie (A.R., B.E., P.M., F.R.), CHU Gui de Chauliac, Montpellier; Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier (A.R., N.H., G.M., C.P.H.), INSERM U1051, Université de Montpellier; Service de Neuroradiologie (C.-J.R., N.L.), CHU Gui de Chauliac, Montpellier; Equipe MitoLab (M.C., G.L.), UMR CNRS 6015-INSERM 1083, Institut MitoVasc, University of Angers, France; Department of Medical Genetics (C. Goizet), Hopital Pellegrin, Bordeaux University Hospital; MRGM Laboratory (C. Goizet), INSERM U1211, University of Bordeaux; Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire (C. Guissart), CHU de Montpellier; U1046 INSERM (P.M., F.R.), UMR9214 CNRS, Université de Montpellier; Department of Neurology (C.M.), University Hospital Gui de Chauliac, Montpellier; Centre de Référence des Malformations et Maladies Congénitales du Cervelet (L.B.), Service de Génétique, Hôpital Armand Trousseau, AP-HP, Paris, France; Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research (R.H.), Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, United Kingdom; and Centre of Reference for Genetic Sensory Diseases (C.P.H.), Montpellier, France.

Neurology. Genetics
|February 24, 2018
PubMed
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