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Association of moderate polyglutamine tract expansions in the slow calcium-activated potassium channel type 3 with ataxia.
Archives of neurology - 1 Oct 2001
Figueroa K P, Chan P, Schöls L, Tanner C, Riess O, Perlman S L, Geschwind D H, Pulst S M
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BACKGROUND: The small-conductance calcium-activated potassium channel gene (hSKCa3) contains 2 CAG repeats, 1 of which is highly polymorphic. Although this repeat is not pathologically expanded in patients with schizophrenia, some studies have suggested an allelic association with schizophrenia. CAG expansions in other genes such as the alpha1 subunit of a brain-specific P/Q-type calcium channel gene cause...
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