| Description |
Halperin-Birk syndrome (HLBKS) is a lethal autosomal recessive neurological syndrome characterized by spastic quadriplegia with multiple contractures, profound developmental delay and convulsions. Brain MRIs of patients demonstrate microcephaly, semilobar holoprosencephaly and agenesis of corpus callosum. It has been reported that mutations in SEC31A cause this syndrome. SEC31A encodes a component of the COP-II complex, trafficking newly synthesized proteins from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi.
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| Authors |
Halperin D, Kadir R, Perez Y, Drabkin M, Yogev Y, Wormser O, Berman EM, Eremenko E, Rotblat B, Shorer Z, Gradstein L, Shelef I, Birk R, Abdu U, Flusser H, Birk OS |