Brain scans of a patient with rare genetic disease caused by variants in CCT3 (IMAGE)

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Brain scans of a patient with rare genetic disease caused by variants in CCT3

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Researchers at WashU Medicine collaborated with an international team of doctors and scientists to identify the cause of a rare disorder involving intellectual disability and brain malformations. Brain scans from a patient with this disorder reveal atypical features in white matter (arrows, left) and the cerebellum (arrows, right).

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Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology at RWTH Aachen University, Germany

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