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Parkinsonism, FXTAS, and FMR1 premutations.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Feb 2005
Toft Mathias, Aasly Jan, Bisceglio Gina, Adler Charles H, Uitti Ryan J, Krygowska-Wajs Anna, Lynch Timothy, Wszolek Zbigniew K, Farrer Matthew J
Abstract excerpt
The presence of late-onset neurological symptoms in male carriers of premutation expansions of the fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene has been described recently. One of the clinical symptoms in this fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) is parkinsonism. To test the possible association between expanded FMR1 alleles and Parkinson's disease (PD), we determined the size of the FMR1 CGG repeat...
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