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Clinical features and genetic characteristics of homozygous spinocerebellar ataxia type 3.
Molecular genetics & genomic medicine - 1 Sept 2020
Li Quan-Fu, Cheng Hao-Ling, Yang Lu, Ma Yin, Zhao Jing-Jing, Dong Yi, Wu Zhi-Ying
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BACKGROUND: Homozygous spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) patients, which have an expanded cytosine-adenine-guanine (CAG) repeat mutation in both alleles of ATXN3, are extremely rare. Clinical features and genetic characteristics of them were seldom studied. METHODS: We analyzed seven newly homozygous SCA3 patients from five families and 14 homozygotes reported previously. An additional cohort of 30...
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