Nature Medicine
3, 149 - 150 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0297-149
Trinucleotide repeats and hereditary ataxiasT. Klockgether
& J. DichgansDepartment of Neurology University of Tübingen D-72076 Tübingen, Germany The mutations causing SCA2, SCA6 and Friedreich's ataxia are unstable expansions of trinucleotide repeats. REFERENCES
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