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Ocular changes in patients with spinocerebellar degeneration and repeated trinucleotide expansion of spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 gene.
Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) - 1 Feb 1997
Abe T, Abe K, Aoki M, Itoyama Y, Tamai M
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OBJECTIVE: To examine ocular changes in patients with spinocerebellar degeneration who have repeated trinucleotide expansion in the spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) gene. DESIGN: Ophthalmic findings in 6 patients from 3 families whose DNA analysis revealed that they had an expanded allele of the trinucleotide repeated in the SCA1 gene were compared with those of normal control subjects and other healthy...
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