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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 72, Issue 6, Pages 1544-1550Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/375404
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Ovarian failure (OF) at age <40 years occurs in ∼1% of all women. Other than karyotype abnormalities, very few genes are known to be associated with this ovarian dysfunction. We studied eight patients who presented with premature OF and white-matter abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging. Neurological signs may be absent or present after OR In seven patients, we report for the first time mutations in three of the five EIF2B genes (EIF2B2, -4, and -5) that were recently shown to cause childhood ataxia with central nervous system hypomyelination/vanishing white-matter disease leukodystrophy. The correlation we observed between the age at onset of the neurological deterioration and the severity of OF suggests a common pathophysiological pathway.
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