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Aprataxin mutations are a rare cause of early onset ataxia in Germany.
Journal of neurology - 1 May 2004
Habeck Matthias, Zühlke Christine, Bentele Karl H P, Unkelbach Stephan, Kress Wolfram, Bürk Katrin, Schwinger Eberhard, Hellenbroich Yorck
Abstract excerpt
Aprataxin (APTX) mutations are the cause of ataxia with ocular motor apraxia type 1(AOA1), an autosomal recessive disorder linked to chromosome 9p13.AOA1 seems to be one of the most frequent causes of recessive ataxia in Japan and Portugal. We screened a group of 165 early onset ataxia patients for APTX mutations and detected two non-related patients homozygous for the W293X nonsense mutation. Additionally, we...
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