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Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA).
Journal of neural transmission. Supplementum - 1 Jan 2000
Tsuji S
Abstract excerpt
Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder caused by expansion of CAG repeats coding for a polyglutamine stretch. The prominent anticipation and broad spectrum in the clinical presentations of DRPLA have been demonstrated to be tightly correlated with the instability of CAG repeats in the DRPLA gene. Discovery of the causative gene for DRPLA has made it...
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