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Look carefully to the heels! A potentially treatable cause of spastic paraplegia

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All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from the patient included in the study.

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  1. Medical Genetics Service, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Rua Ramiro Barcelos 2350, Zip Code 90.035-903, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

    Jonas Alex Saute, Roberto Giugliani & Carolina Fischinger Moura de Souza

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health & Science University, (OHSU), Portland, OR, 97239, USA

    Louise S. Merkens

  3. Casey Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, OHSU, Portland, OR, USA

    John (Pei-Wen) Chiang

  4. Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, OHSU, Portland, OR, USA

    Andrea E. DeBarber

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Saute, J.A., Giugliani, R., Merkens, L.S. et al. Look carefully to the heels! A potentially treatable cause of spastic paraplegia. J Inherit Metab Dis 38, 363–364 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10545-014-9745-0

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