Mutation of the nuclear lamin gene LMNB2 in progressive myoclonus epilepsy with early ataxia

John A Damiano; Zaid Afawi; Melanie Bahlo; Monika Mauermann; Adel Misk; Todor Arsov; Karen L Oliver; Hans-Henrik M Dahl; A Eliot Shearer; Richard JH Smith; Nathan E Hall; Khalid Mahmood; Richard J Leventer; Ingrid E Scheffer; Mikko Muona; Anna-Elina Lehesjoki; Amos D Korczyn; Harald Herrmann; Samuel F Berkovic; Michael S Hildebrand

Journal article

Mutation of the nuclear lamin gene LMNB2 in progressive myoclonus epilepsy with early ataxia

John A Damiano, Zaid Afawi, Melanie Bahlo, Monika Mauermann, Adel Misk, Todor Arsov, Karen L Oliver, Hans-Henrik M Dahl, A Eliot Shearer, Richard JH Smith, Nathan E Hall, Khalid Mahmood, Richard J Leventer, Ingrid E Scheffer, Mikko Muona, Anna-Elina Lehesjoki, Amos D Korczyn, Harald Herrmann, Samuel F Berkovic, Michael S Hildebrand

Human Molecular Genetics | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2015

DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddv171

University of Melbourne Researchers

Melanie Bahlo Author Mathematics and Statistics

Rick Leventer Author Paediatrics Royal Children's Hospital

Saul Mullen Author Medical Education

John Damiano Author Medicine - Austin Health

Ingrid Scheffer Author Medicine - Austin Health

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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Program Grant

Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Australia Fellowship

Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Practitioner Fellowship

Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Career Development Fellowship

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Program Grant (628952) to S.F.B. and I.E.S., an Australia Fellowship (466671) to S.F.B., a Practitioner Fellowship (1006110) to I.E.S and a Career Development Fellowship (1063799) to M.S.H. M.B. was supported by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship (FT100100764) and NHMRC Program Grant (APP1054618). This work was also supported by Victorian State Government Operational Infrastructure Support and Australian Government NHMRC IRIISS funding. H.H. received funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG HE 1853/11-1, FOR 1228).