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Frameshift, nonsense and non amino acid altering mutations in SOD1 in familial ALS: report of a Japanese pedigree and literature review.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other motor neuron disorders : official publication of the World Federation of Neurology, Research Group on Motor Neuron Diseases - 1 Sept 2000
Watanabe Y, Kato S, Adachi Y, Nakashima K
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We demonstrated the clinical characteristics of each member of a family from Oki Island in western Japan, whose members have familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS) with a 2-base pair (bp) deletion at codon 126 of Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) gene. Mean disease duration among the Oki family members was about 2 years. Long-term survivors with respiratory support presented disturbances in eye movement...
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