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Frataxin point mutations in two patients with Friedreich's ataxia and unusual clinical features.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 May 2000
McCormack M L, Guttmann R P, Schumann M, Farmer J M, Stolle C A, Campuzano V, Koenig M, Lynch D R
Abstract excerpt
Two patients with a progressive ataxia are presented with clinical features consistent with classic Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA), but also with features unusual for FRDA. Analysis of DNA showed that each patient is heterozygous for the expanded GAA repeat of FRDA, but carries a base change on his other frataxin allele. For one patient a non-conservative arginine to cysteine amino acid change is predicted at amino...
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