Identification of APTX disease-causing mutation in two unrelated Jordanian families with cerebellar ataxia and sensitivity to DNA damaging agents

• Nidaa A. Ababneh ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: nidaaanwar@gmail.com, n.ababneh@ju.edu.jo (NAA); abdalla.awidi@gmail.com (AA)

  Affiliation Cell Therapy Center, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2155-3013

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• Dema Ali ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dema Ali, Ban Al-Kurdi

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Cell Therapy Center, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

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• Ban Al-Kurdi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dema Ali, Ban Al-Kurdi

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Cell Therapy Center, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

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• Malik Sallam,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, Department of Clinical Laboratories and Forensic Medicine, Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan, Department of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0165-9670

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• Abdulla M. Alzibdeh,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4962-8398

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• Bareqa Salah,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation General Surgery Department/Plastic & Reconstructive, Jordan University Hospital, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

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• Abdee T. Ryalat,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation King Hussein Cancer Center, Amman, Jordan

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• Belal Azab,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Basil Sharrack,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Academic Department of Neuroscience and Sheffield NIHR Neuroscience BRC, Royal Hallamshire Hospital and The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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• Abdalla Awidi

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  * E-mail: nidaaanwar@gmail.com, n.ababneh@ju.edu.jo (NAA); abdalla.awidi@gmail.com (AA)

  Affiliations Cell Therapy Center, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, Hemostasis and Thrombosis Laboratory, School of Medicine, the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan

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