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Late-onset hereditary spastic paraplegia with thin corpus callosum caused by a new SPG3A mutation

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Acknowledgments

This study was supported by the Comitato Telethon Fondazione Onlus, Italy (grant no. GGP10121 to A.O.), the Italian Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (PRIN 2008, grant no. 020903052 to A.O.), the Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy (FAA 2008, grant no. 020903023 to A.O.), and the Italian Ministero della Salute (grant no. REG.17O to A.O.). We are extremely grateful to the Genetic Bank of the Laboratorio di Neurogenetica, CERC-IRCCS Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy (http://www.hsantalucia.it/neurogen/index_en.htm) for the service provided. We thank the patients and family members involved in this study.

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  1. Laboratorio di Neurogenetica, Centro Europeo di Ricerca sul Cervello (CERC), Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) Santa Lucia, 64 Via del Fosso di Fiorano, 00143, Rome, Italy

    Antonio Orlacchio, Pasqua Montieri, Carla Babalini, Fabrizio Gaudiello & Giorgio Bernardi

  2. Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

    Antonio Orlacchio & Giorgio Bernardi

  3. Department of Neurology, Hyogo Brain and Heart Center, Himeji City, Japan

    Toshitaka Kawarai

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Orlacchio, A., Montieri, P., Babalini, C. et al. Late-onset hereditary spastic paraplegia with thin corpus callosum caused by a new SPG3A mutation. J Neurol 258, 1361–1363 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-011-5934-z

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