✦ LIBER ✦
Familial essential tremor is not associated with SCA-12 mutation in southern Italy
✍ Scribed by Giuseppe Nicoletti; Grazia Annesi; Sara Carrideo; Carmine Tomaino; Alfonso Di Costanzo; Mario Zappia; Aldo Quattrone
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 305 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-3185
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✦ Synopsis
We investigated 30 patients with familial essential tremor (ET) for spinocerebellar ataxia type 12 (SCA-12) mutations. No patient presented a CAG repeat larger than 19, suggesting that familial ET and SCA-12 are distinct diseases.