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Nature Medicine  3, 149 - 150 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0297-149

Trinucleotide repeats and hereditary ataxias

T. Klockgether & J. Dichgans

Department of Neurology University of Tübingen D-72076 Tübingen, Germany

The mutations causing SCA2, SCA6 and Friedreich's ataxia are unstable expansions of trinucleotide repeats.

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