Prevalence of triplet repeat expansion in ataxia patients from Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-51

  Sasaki, Hidenao ^a   Yabe, Ichiro ^a   Yamashita, Isao ^a   Tashiro, Kunio ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Founder effect; Prevalence; Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA); Triplet repeat

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DENTATORUBROPALLIDOLUYSIAN ATROPHY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION;

EID: 0034175530     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(00)00313-0     Document Type: Article

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