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Clinically asymptomatic adult patient with extensive LBSL MRI pattern and DARS2 mutations

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The authors acknowledge Dimitri Renard, MD (CHU of Nîmes) for excellent reading of the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Neurology, CHU Nîmes, Hôpital Caremeau, 2 Avenue du Pr Debré, 30029, Nîmes Cedex 4, France

    Pierre Labauge

  2. Faculté de Médecine, INSERM, UMR 931, GReD, Clermont-Ferrand, France

    Imen Dorboz, Eleonore Eymard-Pierre & Odile Boespflug-Tanguy

  3. Service de Cytogénétique, CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France

    Eleonore Eymard-Pierre

  4. Department of Neurology, CH de Calais, Calais, France

    Olivier Dereeper

  5. Neuropédiatrie, Centre de Référence Leucodystrophies, Hôpital Robert Debré, Assistance Publique des Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France

    Odile Boespflug-Tanguy

  6. Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris VII, Denis Diderot, Paris, France

    Odile Boespflug-Tanguy

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Labauge, P., Dorboz, I., Eymard-Pierre, E. et al. Clinically asymptomatic adult patient with extensive LBSL MRI pattern and DARS2 mutations. J Neurol 258, 335–337 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-010-5755-5

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