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Genome-wide estimate of the heritability of Multiple System Atrophy.
Parkinsonism & related disorders - 1 Jan 2016
Federoff M, Price T R, Sailer A, Scholz S, Hernandez D, Nicolas A, Singleton A B, Nalls M, Houlden H
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INTRODUCTION: Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) is a neurodegenerative disease which presents heterogeneously with symptoms and signs of parkinsonism, ataxia and autonomic dysfunction. Although MSA typically occurs sporadically, rare pathology-proven MSA families following either autosomal recessive or autosomal dominant patterns have been described, indicating a heritable contribution to the pathogenesis. METHODS:...
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