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A gene for ataxic cerebral palsy maps to chromosome 9p12-q12.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Apr 2000
McHale D P, Jackson A P, Campbell, Levene M I, Corry P, Woods C G, Lench N J, Mueller R F, Markham A F
Abstract excerpt
Cerebral palsy (CP) has an incidence of approximately 1 in 750 births, although this varies between ethnic groups. Genetic forms of the disease account for about 2% of cases in most countries, but contribute a larger proportion in certain sub-types of the condition and in populations with a large proportion of consanguineous marriages. Ataxic cerebral palsy accounts for 5-10% of all forms of CP and it is...
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