Pulmonary function in adolescents with ataxia telangiectasia
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Ataxia-telangiectasia
Objective Ataxia-telangiectasia (AT) is a rare, severe, and ineluctably progressive multisystemic neurodegenerative disease. Variant AT phenotypes have been described in patients with mildand late-onset neurologic deterioration and atypical features (dystonia and myoclonus). We report on the clinical characteristics and transcriptome profile of patients with a typical AT presentation and genoty...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Pulmonology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 8755-6863,1099-0496
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.20738