Article
Frequency of spinocerebellar ataxia mutations in the Kinki district of Japan.
Acta neurologica Scandinavica - 1 Jan 2003
Matsumura R, Futamura N, Ando N, Ueno S
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: To determine the frequencies of spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs) in the Kinki district, the western part of the main island of Japan. MATERIAL AND METHODS: One hundred and forty-three families with dominantly inherited ataxia and 220 patients with apparently sporadic cerebellar ataxia were examined for the SCA1, SCA2, SCA3/Machado-Joseph disease (MJD), SCA6, SCA7, SCA8, SCA12 and...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Calcium Channels
- Chromosome Mapping
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genes, Dominant
- Genetics, Population
- Humans
- Japan
- Machado-Joseph Disease
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mutation
- Myoclonic Epilepsies, Progressive
- Trinucleotide Repeats
