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SCA17 homozygote showing Huntington's disease-like phenotype.
Annals of neurology - 1 Feb 2004
Toyoshima Yasuko, Yamada Mitsunori, Onodera Osamu, Shimohata Mitsuteru, Inenaga Chikanori, Fujita Nobuya, Morita Masahiro, Tsuji Shoji, Takahashi Hitoshi
Abstract excerpt
We report a homozygous case of spinocerebellar ataxia type 17 with 48 glutamines. The age of the patient at disease onset was not lower than those of heterozygotes with the same CAG-repeat sizes, but the clinical manifestations were rapidly progressive dementia and chorea. Neuronal loss was relatively restricted and most prominent in the Purkinje cell layer and striatum; however, intranuclear neuronal...
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