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Genome-wide association study identifies genetic factors that modify age at ons...
Akçimen, F; Martins, S; Liao, C; Bourassa, CV; Catoire, H; Nicholson, GA; Riess, O; Raposo, M; França, MC; Vasconcelos, J; Lima, M; Lopes-Cendes, IMachado-Joseph disease (MJD/SCA3) is the most common form of dominantly inherited ataxia worldwide. The disorder is caused by an expanded CAG repeat in the ATXN3 gene. Past studies have revealed that the length of the expansion partly explains the disease age at onset (AO) variability of MJD, which is confirmed in this study (Pearson's correlation coefficient R2 = 0.62). Using a total of 786 MJD patients from f...
Date: 2020
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Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto