“…Aspartylglycosaminuria (AGU) Palo and Mattsson (1970) and Haltia et al (1975) Infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (CLN1) , Haltia, Rapola, Santavuori and Keranen (1973) and Santavuori et al (1973) Late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (CLN5) See Mole and Haltia (2015) Progressive epilepsy with mental retardation (CLN8) See Mole and Haltia (2015) Congenital neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (CLN10) See Mole and Haltia (2015) Progressive myoclonus epilepsy (EPN1) Haltia, Kristensson, and Sourander (1969) and Koskiniemi, Donner, Majuri, Haltia, and Norio (1974) Progressive encephalopathy with oedema, hypsarrhythmia and optic atrophy (PEHO) Haltia and Somer (1993) and Salonen, Somer, Haltia, Lorentz, and Norio (1991) Muscle-eye-brain disease (MEB) Haltia et al (1997) and Santavuori et al (1998) Hydrolethalus syndrome Paetau et al (2008) Infantile onset spinocerebellar ataxia (IOSCA) Koskinen et al (1994) and Lonnqvist, Paetau, Nikali, Boguslawski, and Pihko (1998) Foetal motoneuron disease Nousiainen et al (2008) T A B L E 1 Early-onset neurological disorders discovered and/or characterized by Finnish investigators (Kalimo et al, 1988) and tibial muscular dystrophy (Udd et al, 1998). The latter condition is caused by mutations in the gene encoding the giant skeletal-muscle protein, titin (Hackman et al, 2002).…”