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A rare neurodegenerative disease with characteristics of progressive cataracts, hearing loss, cerebellar ataxia, paranoid psychosis and dementia. Neuropathological features are diffuse atrophy of all parts of the brain, chronic diffuse encephalopathy and the presence of extremely thin and almost completely demyelinated cranial nerves. Caused by mutation in the ITM2B gene.
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