Article
Electrophysiological findings in a Danish family with Machado-Joseph disease.
Muscle & nerve - 1 Jun 1996
Colding-Jørgensen E, Sørensen S A, Hasholt L, Lauritzen M
Abstract excerpt
Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) is a neurodegenerative disorder with autosomal dominant inheritance, We have carried out electrophysiological studies in 8 individuals belonging to a Danish family with several affected members. Five had an expanded trinucleotide (CAG) repeat sequence in the MJD1 gene...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Ataxin-3
- Brain Stem
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14
- Denmark
- Electromyography
- Electrophysiology
- Evoked Potentials, Auditory
- Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory
- Evoked Potentials, Visual
