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The SCA17 phenotype can include features of MSA-C, PSP and cognitive impairment.
Parkinsonism & related disorders - 1 May 2007
Lin I-Sheng, Wu Ruey-Meei, Lee-Chen Guey-Jen, Shan Din-E, Gwinn-Hardy Katrina
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Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) 17 is a dominant neurodegenerative disorder characterized by ataxia, cognitive decline, dystonia, and parkinsonism. The disease is caused by unstable cytosine-adenine-guanine (CAG) trinucleotide expansion mutation coding for polyglutamine tracts in the TATA box-binding protein (TBP), a general transcription initiation factor. Herein, we report a SCA17 case with a phenotype not...
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