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SCA2 presenting as levodopa-responsive parkinsonism in a young patient from the United Kingdom: a case report.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 May 2004
Wilkins Alastair, Brown Jerry M, Barker Roger A
Abstract excerpt
We report on a young woman from the United Kingdom with L-dopa-responsive parkinsonism with a trinucleotide repeat expansion in her spinocerebellar ataxia 2 (SCA2) gene. The case further extends the phenotype of SCA2 and emphasizes the importance of SCA screening in young-onset parkinsonism, irrespective of ethnic origin.
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