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[Multiple phenotypic manifestations of X-linked spinobulbar muscular atrophy].
Revue neurologique - 1 Jan 2009
Vandenberghe N, Bouhour F, Petiot P, Gonnaud P-M, Latour P, Broussolle E, Vial C
Abstract excerpt
Recessive X-linked amyotrophic spinobulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) or Kennedy disease is a neuroendocrine disorder with a slowly progressive phenotype, caused by an expansion of a polymorphic tandem CAG repeat of the androgen receptor gene. Classical clinical hallmarks include onset in the third decade of life, weakness and wasting predominantly in proximal extremity muscles, variable weakness of bulbar muscles,...
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