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Translation defects
Email: Jonathan B Weitzman - jonathanweitzman@hotmail.com News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20011114-01
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Analysis of patients with an inherited brain disease has provided the first link between translation initiation factors and human disease. Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter (VWM) occurs during childhood and is a chronic-progressive disorder (involving rapid additional deterioration following febrile infection or minor head trauma).
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