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Mutation detection in Machado-Joseph disease using repeat expansion detection.
Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) - 1 Jan 1996
Lindblad K, Lunkes A, Maciel P, Stevanin G, Zander C, Klockgether T, Ratzlaff T, Brice A, Rouleau G A, Hudson T, Auburger G, Schalling M
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BACKGROUND: Several neurological disorders have recently been explained through the discovery of expanded DNA repeat sequences. Among these is Machado-Joseph disease, one of the most common spinocerebellar ataxias (MJD/SCA3), caused by a CAG repeat expansion on chromosome 14. A useful way of dete...
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