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Transmission distortion of the mutant alleles in spinocerebellar ataxia.
Human genetics - 1 Feb 1997
Riess O, Epplen J T, Amoiridis G, Przuntek H, Schöls L
Abstract excerpt
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 and type 3 (SCA1, SCA3) are autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorders caused by expanded CAG trinucleotide repeats in novel genes. In our collective of SCA1 and SCA3 families, we observed distortion of the Mendelian 1:1 segregation of the disease. The mutated alleles were preferentially transmitted by female carriers in SCA3, whereas a gender effect on clinical features such as...
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