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Molecular and clinical correlations in spinocerebellar ataxia type I: evidence for familial effects on the age at onset.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Aug 1994
Ranum L P, Chung M Y, Banfi S, Bryer A, Schut L J, Ramesar R, Duvick L A, McCall A, Subramony S H, Goldfarb L
Abstract excerpt
The spinocerebellar ataxias are a group of debilitating neurodegenerative diseases for which a clinical classification system has proved unreliable. We have recently isolated the gene for spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) and have shown that the disease is caused by an expanded, unstable, CAG trinucleotide repeat within an expressed gene. Normal alleles have a size range of 19-36 repeats, while SCA1 alleles...
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