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Epidemiological and clinical patterns of western pacific amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in Guam and sporadic ALS in Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.A. and Hokkaido, Japan: a comparative study.
[Hokkaido igaku zasshi] The Hokkaido journal of medical science - 1 May 2003
Okumura Hitoshi
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Western Pacific amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in Guam, so-called Guam ALS, is a neurodegenerative disease with a high incidence among the indigenous population, Chamorros, in Guam. To clarify the differences in the epidemiological and clinical features between Guam ALS and sporadic ALS, the...
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