Brain somatic mutations in SLC35A2 cause intractable epilepsy with aberrant N-glycosylation

Nam Suk Sim1, Youngsuk Seo1, Jae Seok Lim1

  • 1Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering (N.S.S., J.S.L., W.K.K., J.H.L.), KAIST; Asia Glycomics Reference Site (Y.S., H.J.A.); Graduate School of Analytical Science & Technology (Y.S., H.J.A.), Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea; Department of Biomedical System informatics (H.S., S.K.), Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine; Division of Pediatric Neurology (H.D.K., H.C.K.), Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Epilepsy Clinics, Severance Children's Hospital; Epilepsy Research Institute (H.D.K., H.C.K.), Yonsei University College of Medicine; Department of Pathology (S.H.K.), Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; and Pediatric Neurosurgery (D.S.K.), Severance Children's Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.

Neurology. Genetics
|December 26, 2018
PubMed
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