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A large Japanese family with Machado-Joseph disease: clinical and genetic analysis.
Acta neurologica Scandinavica - 1 Apr 1999
Yoritaka A, Nakagawa-Hattori Y, Hattori N, Kitahara A, Mizuno Y
Abstract excerpt
We report clinical and genetic studies on a large Japanese family with Machado-Joseph disease (MJD), in which various different clinical phenotypes were seen in the same family, i.e., cerebellar ataxia type, severe amyotrophy type, and young-onset parkinsonism type. In addition, patients with very mild symptoms (formes frustes) were encountered. The expansion of the CAG repeat at the MJD locus ranged from 64 to...
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