Article
16q-linked autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia: a clinical and genetic study.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 25 Sept 2006
Ouyang Y, Sakoe K, Shimazaki H, Namekawa M, Ogawa T, Ando Y, Kawakami T, Kaneko J, Hasegawa Y, Yoshizawa K, Amino T, Ishikawa K, Mizusawa H, Nakano I, Takiyama Y
Abstract excerpt
The autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias (ADCAs) comprise a genetically and clinically heterogenous group of neurodegenerative disorders. Very recently, a C-to-T single nucleotide substitution in the puratrophin-1 gene was found to be strongly associated with a form of ADCA linked to chromosome 16q22.1 (16q-linked ADCA; OMIM 600223). We found the C-to-T substitution in the puratrophin-1 gene in 20 patients with...
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