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Machado‐joseph disease: Clinical, molecular, and metabolic characterization in chinese kindreds
1 Apr 1997
Abstract excerpt
Machado-Joseph disease, an autosomal dominant multisystem motor degeneration, has been described mainly in people of Portuguese descent. Our report documents the presence of Machado-Joseph disease in the Chinese population, based on the specific molecular marker of a CAG repeat array in the 3' end of the MJD gene. We screened 21 Chinese families with dominant spinocerebellar ataxia. The results showed that...
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