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Founder haplotype for Machado-Joseph disease in the Indian population: novel insights from history and polymorphism studies.
Archives of neurology - 1 Apr 2005
Mittal Uma, Srivastava Achal K, Jain Satish, Jain Sanjeev, Mukerji Mitali
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The ACA haplotype is associated with 72% of the expanded repeats in Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) worldwide and has been traced to a Portuguese ancestry. It is present in only 5% of the normal chromosomes in the Portuguese population. OBJECTIVE: To trace the origin of expanded alleles of MJD in the Indian population. METHODS: We performed CAG repeat size determination and haplotype analysis for 9...
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