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Copy Number Variation Analysis from SNP Genoty** Microarrays in Large Cohorts of Neurological Disorders
Copy number variants (CNVs) are a major source of genetic variation in the human genome, and they are highly heterogeneous in type, size, and frequency. CNVs represent the largest portion of genomic variation ...
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Correction to: Genetic Analysis of Hereditary Ataxias in Peru Identifies SCA10 Families with Incomplete Penetrance
The original version of this article unfortunately contained some mistakes in Table 2. The additional row (just above SCA2) with the following information “SCA1, 1(1), 1, 50, 74, 24, 46 and 0/1” should be inse...
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Genetic Analysis of Hereditary Ataxias in Peru Identifies SCA10 Families with Incomplete Penetrance
Relative frequency of hereditary ataxias remains unknown in many regions of Latin America. We described the relative frequency in spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) due to (CAG)n and to (ATTCT)n expansions, as well...
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Open AccessEconomic burden of Huntington’s disease in Peru
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a devastating and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that leads to progressive disability, and over time to total dependence. The economic impact of HD on patients living in developi...
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ATXN10 Microsatellite Distribution in a Peruvian Amerindian Population
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 10 (SCA10) is a repeat expansion disease occurring mostly in Latin America, suggesting that the mutation spread with the peopling of the Americas, or that Amerindian populations, ha...
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Open AccessErratum: Variable frequency of LRRK2 variants in the Latin American research consortium on the genetics of Parkinson’s disease (LARGE-PD), a case of ancestry
A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML version of this article.
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Open AccessVariable frequency of LRRK2 variants in the Latin American research consortium on the genetics of Parkinson’s disease (LARGE-PD), a case of ancestry
Mutations in Leucine Repeat Rich Kinase 2 (LRRK2), primarily located in codons G2019 and R1441, represent the most common genetic cause of Parkinson’s disease in European-derived populations. However, little is k...
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Open AccessThe RAB39B p.G192R mutation causes X-linked dominant Parkinson’s disease
To identify the causal gene in a multi-incident U.S. kindred with Parkinson’s disease (PD).
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Neurogenetics in Peru: clinical, scientific and ethical perspectives
Neurogenetics, the science that studies the genetic basis of the development and function of the nervous system, is a discipline of recent development in Peru, an emerging Latin American country. Herein, we re...