Deficiency of asparagine synthetase causes congenital microcephaly and a progressive form of encephalopathy.

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Published in Neuron on October 16, 2013

Authors

Elizabeth K Ruzzo1, José-Mario Capo-Chichi, Bruria Ben-Zeev, David Chitayat, Hanqian Mao, Andrea L Pappas, Yuki Hitomi, Yi-Fan Lu, Xiaodi Yao, Fadi F Hamdan, Kimberly Pelak, Haike Reznik-Wolf, Ifat Bar-Joseph, Danit Oz-Levi, Dorit Lev, Tally Lerman-Sagie, Esther Leshinsky-Silver, Yair Anikster, Edna Ben-Asher, Tsviya Olender, Laurence Colleaux, Jean-Claude Décarie, Susan Blaser, Brenda Banwell, Rasesh B Joshi, Xiao-Ping He, Lysanne Patry, Rachel J Silver, Sylvia Dobrzeniecka, Mohammad S Islam, Abul Hasnat, Mark E Samuels, Dipendra K Aryal, Ramona M Rodriguiz, Yong-Hui Jiang, William C Wetsel, James O McNamara, Guy A Rouleau, Debra L Silver, Doron Lancet, Elon Pras, Grant A Mitchell, Jacques L Michaud, David B Goldstein

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Human Genome Variation, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27708, USA.

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