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Clinical and genetic epidemiological study of 16q22.1-linked autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia in western Japan.
Acta neurologica Scandinavica - 1 Aug 2007
Hayashi M, Adachi Y, Mori M, Nakano T, Nakashima K
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia (ADCA) is a heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorder. A single nucleotide substitution in the puratrophin-1 gene is associated with 16q22.1-linked ADCA showing pure cerebellar ataxia. We screened patients with spinocerebellar degeneration (SCD) to investigate the frequency and clinical features of 16q22.1-linked ADCA. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We examined 91 SCD...
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