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Influence of interleukin-1beta gene polymorphism on age-at-onset of spinocerebellar ataxia 6 (SCA6) in Japanese patients.
Neuroscience letters - 13 Jul 2001
Nishimura M, Kawakami H, Maruyama H, Izumi Y, Kuno S, Kaji R, Nakamura S
Abstract excerpt
An inverse correlation is observed between the expanded CAG repeat number and age-at-onset of spinocerebellar ataxia 6 (SCA6). To detect another modifying genetic factor for SCA6, we studied polymorphisms in the genes for interleukin (IL)-1beta and tumor necrosis factor in 122 Japanese patients with SCA6. No contribution of these polymorphisms to the variance in disease onset was observed by regression analysis...
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