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Analysis of an insertion mutation in a cohort of 94 patients with spinocerebellar ataxia type 31 from Nagano, Japan.
Neurogenetics - 1 Oct 2010
Sakai Haruya, Yoshida Kunihiro, Shimizu Yusaku, Morita Hiroshi, Ikeda Shu-ichi, Matsumoto Naomichi
Abstract excerpt
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 31 (SCA31) is a recently defined subtype of autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia (ADCA) characterized by adult-onset, pure cerebellar ataxia. The C/T substitution in the 5'-untranslated region of the puratrophin-1 gene (PLEKHG4) or a disease-specific haplotype within the 900-kb SCA31 critical region just upstream of PLEKHG4 has been used for the diagnosis of SCA31. Very recently, a...
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