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[Personal genome research and neurological diseases: overview].
Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo - 1 Mar 2013
Toda Tatsushi
Abstract excerpt
Neurological diseases include those caused by a single defective gene,e.g., Huntington's disease, other polyglutamine diseases, and muscular dystrophies, and those that are mostly sporadic but rarely show Mendelian inheritance in some families, e.g., Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and epilepsy. The latter diseases are considered polygenic disorders. Both sporadic and...
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