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[Direct DNA diagnosis of Friedreich's ataxia].
Casopis lekaru ceskych - 20 Oct 1999
Borský M, Pekarík V, Tvrdíková M, Kozák L
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BACKGROUND: Friedreich's ataxia is an autosomal recessive, neurodegenerative disease with a prevalence of 1-2: 100,000. Ninety five % of cases are caused by Friedreich's ataxia expansion of GAA triplet repeat in the first intron of the X25 gene. The gene is mapped on chromosome 9q. The objective...
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