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Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias in the Kinki area of Japan.
The Japanese journal of human genetics - 1 Dec 1996
Matsumura R, Takayanagi T, Murata K, Futamura N, Fujimoto Y
Abstract excerpt
The autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias are a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by slowly progressive cerebellar ataxia. Recently, among the ataxias, spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1), Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) and dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy have been found to be caused by expansion of a CAG trinucleotide repeat in the coding region of the disease genes. We have...
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