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Incidence of dominant spinocerebellar and Friedreich triplet repeats among 361 ataxia families
1 Dec 1998
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OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) types 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 and Friedreich's ataxia (FA) among a large panel of ataxia families. BACKGROUND: The ataxias are a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative diseases that variably affect the cerebellum, brainstem, and spinocerebellar tracts. Trinucleotide repeat expansions have been shown to be the mutational...
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