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Quantitative profiling and identification of plasma proteins of spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 patients.
Neuro-degenerative diseases - 1 Jan 2013
Swarup Vishnu, Srivastava Achal K, Padma Madakasira V, Moganty Rajeswari R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2) is an autosomal-dominant hereditary ataxia characterized by progressive gait and limb ataxia, dysarthria, slow saccades, neuropathy and dementia. The expansion of trinucleotide CAG repeats in the coding region of the ATXN-2 gene leads to expanded polyglutamine stretch in the mutated protein which causes neuronal death. OBJECTIVE: In this study, we investigated the...
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