Journal
HUMAN MUTATION
Volume 37, Issue 1, Pages 16-27Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/humu.22919
Keywords
metachromatic leukodystrophy; arylsulfatase A; saposin B; ARSA; PSAP; mutation
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- Cinque per mille e Ricerca Corrente, Ministero della Salute
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Metachromatic leukodystrophy is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive demyelination. The disease is caused by variants in the ARSA gene, which codes for the lysosomal enzyme arylsulfatase A, or, more rarely, in the PSAP gene, which codes for the activator protein saposin B. In this Mutation Update, an extensive review of all the ARSA- and PSAP-causative variants published in the literature to date, accounting for a total of 200 ARSA and 10 PSAP allele types, is presented. The detailed ARSA and PSAP variant lists are freely available on the Leiden Online Variation Database (LOVD) platform at and , respectively.
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