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Epidemiology of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy in Japan.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2002
Takemoto Yasuhiko, Suzuki Yasuyuki, Tamakoshi Akiko, Onodera Osamu, Tsuji Shoji, Hashimoto Takashi, Shimozawa Nobuyuki, Orii Tadao, Kondo Naomi
Abstract excerpt
To clarify the epidemiology of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) in Japan, we performed a questionnaire survey. Two hundred eighty-six patients, including 154 from internal medicine, 100 from pediatrics, 21 from psychiatry, and 11 from other hospitals, were reported to have ALD between 1990 and 1999. The data on 154 patients revealed the phenotypic distribution to be as follows: childhood cerebral form (29.9%),...
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