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Nationwide survey on cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis in Japan.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Mar 2018
Sekijima Yoshiki, Koyama Shingo, Yoshinaga Tsuneaki, Koinuma Masayoshi, Inaba Yuji
Abstract excerpt
Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX) is likely to be underdiagnosed and precise epidemiological characteristics of CTX are largely unknown as knowledge on the disorder is based mainly on case reports. We conducted a nationwide survey on CTX to elucidate the frequency, clinical picture, and molecular biological background of Japanese CTX patients. In this first Japanese nationwide survey on CTX, 2541...
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