Infantile-onset ascending hereditary spastic paralysis is associated with mutations in the alsin gene.

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Published in Am J Hum Genet on July 26, 2002

Authors

Eleonore Eymard-Pierre1, Gaetan Lesca, Sandra Dollet, Filippo Maria Santorelli, Matteo di Capua, Enrico Bertini, Odile Boespflug-Tanguy

Author Affiliations

1: INSERM UMR384 et Fédération de Génétique Humaine Auvergne, Faculté de médecine, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

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