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Friedreich's ataxia. Revision of the phenotype according to molecular genetics.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Dec 1997
Schöls L, Amoiridis G, Przuntek H, Frank G, Epplen J T, Epplen C
Abstract excerpt
Friedreich's ataxia is an autosomal recessively inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by expansions of an unstable GAA trinucleotide repeat in the STM7/X25 gene on chromosome 9q. We studied the (GAA)n polymorphism in 178 healthy controls and 102 patients with idiopathic ataxia. The repeat s...
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