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Novel compound heterozygous ALS2 mutations in two Chinese siblings with infantile ascending hereditary spastic paralysis

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Proj. No. 30973221 and 81371266) and the Program for Zhejiang Leading Team of Science and Technology Innovation (Proj. No. 2010R50049-04).

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This study was approved by the Research Ethics at Board Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine and the parents of the patients gave their consent for publishing the data of the patients, including the video.

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  1. Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310009, People’s Republic of China

    Fei Xie, Zhi-dong Cen & Wei Luo

  2. Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

    Jian-feng Xiao

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F. Xie and Z. Cen contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-first authors.

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Xie, F., Cen, Zd., Xiao, Jf. et al. Novel compound heterozygous ALS2 mutations in two Chinese siblings with infantile ascending hereditary spastic paralysis. Neurol Sci 36, 1279–1280 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-014-2018-8

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