Publications by authors named "Ilaria Ferrone"

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A (CMT2A; OMIM 609260) is a rare sensorimotor neuropathy caused by mutations in the MFN2 gene (1p36.22). We successfully reprogrammed fibroblasts from an 8-year-old girl carrying a de novo MFN2 mutation into induced pluripotent stem cells using non-integrative vectors.

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Smith-Magenis syndrome (SMS) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder caused by haploinsufficiency of the Retinoic Acid Induced 1 (RAI1) gene located at 17p11.2. It is estimated that approximately 90% of patients have a 17p11.

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Smith-Magenis syndrome (SMS) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder with a birth incidence of 1:25,000. SMS is caused by haploinsufficiency of the retinoic acid-induced retinoic acid1 (RAI1) gene, determined by an interstitial deletion of ∼ 3.7 Mb (17p11.

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