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Looking for differences in copy number between blood and brain in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Muscle & nerve - 1 Oct 2011
Pamphlett Roger, Morahan Julia M, Luquin Natasha, Yu Bing
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Most analyses of blood DNA in sporadic neuromuscular disorders have been inconclusive. This may be because some genetic variants occur only in brain tissue. We therefore looked for copy number variants (CNVs) in both blood and brain in patients with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (SALS). METHODS: Genome-wide CNVs were compared in blood and brain from 32 SALS patients and from 26 normal...
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