Itajaí, Santa Catarina – Azorean ancestry and spinocerebellar ataxia type 3
ABSTRACT The authors present a historical review of spinocerebellar ataxia type 3/Machado-Joseph disease (SCA3/MJD), the most common form of spinocerebellar ataxia in Brazil, and consider the high frequency of cases in families from Itajaí, a city on the coast of the state of Santa Catarina with a l...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO)
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Series: | Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2016001000858&lng=en&tlng=en |