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Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7) shows a cone-rod dystrophy phenotype.
Experimental eye research - 1 Jun 2002
Aleman Tomas S, Cideciyan Artur V, Volpe Nicholas J, Stevanin Giovanni, Brice Alexis, Jacobson Samuel G
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Autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxia 7 is associated with retinal degeneration. SCA7, the causative gene, encodes ataxin-7, a ubiquitous 892 amino acid protein of variable sub-cellular localization, and the disease is due to expansion of an unstable CAG repeat in the coding region of the gene. Recent increases in understanding of the mechanisms ofSCA7 -related retinopathy from in vitro and murine model...
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