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Phenotypic heterogeneity in motor neuron disease patients with CuZn-superoxide dismutase mutations in Scandinavia.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Oct 1997
Andersen P M, Nilsson P, Keränen M L, Forsgren L, Hägglund J, Karlsborg M, Ronnevi L O, Gredal O, Marklund S L
Abstract excerpt
Four-hundred and fifty-one blood samples from Scandinavian patients with motor neuron disease were analysed for mutations in the CuZn-superoxide dismutase gene. Forty-one (9.6%) of the 427 patients with the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) form of the disease were found to have a disease-associated mutation, and 14 of these patients were apparently sporadic cases. A mutation was found in 12 of the 51 families...
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