Mutations in the mitochondrial methionyl-tRNA synthetase cause a neurodegenerative phenotype in flies and a recessive ataxia (ARSAL) in humans.

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Published in PLoS Biol on March 20, 2012

Authors

Vafa Bayat1, Isabelle Thiffault, Manish Jaiswal, Martine Tétreault, Taraka Donti, Florin Sasarman, Geneviève Bernard, Julie Demers-Lamarche, Marie-Josée Dicaire, Jean Mathieu, Michel Vanasse, Jean-Pierre Bouchard, Marie-France Rioux, Charles M Lourenco, Zhihong Li, Claire Haueter, Eric A Shoubridge, Brett H Graham, Bernard Brais, Hugo J Bellen

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1: Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America.

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