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Childhood-onset neurodegeneration with brain atrophy: What Patients Should Know

By Dr. Joseph Adeyemi, DO · · Pediatrics

This article from Weyland-Yutani Health System's Pediatrics service line explains childhood-onset neurodegeneration with brain atrophy in plain language.

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Topic: childhood-onset neurodegeneration with brain atrophy. A neurodegenerative disease characterized by loss of motor and cognitive skills between ages 2 and 7 years with progressive cerebral and cerebellar atrophy, resulting in the inability to walk, absence of language, and profound intellectual disability, that has_material_basis_in heterozygous mutation in the UBTF gene on chromosome 17q21.31.

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