Ancestral Origin of the ATTCT Repeat Expansion in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 10 (SCA10)

Teresa Almeida; Isabel Alonso; Sandra Martins; Eliana Marisa Ramos; Luísa Azevedo; Kinji Ohno; António Amorim; Maria Luiza Saraiva-Pereira; Laura Bannach Jardim; Tohru Matsuura; Jorge Sequeiros; Isabel Silveira

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004553

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Ancestral Origin of the ATTCT Repeat Expansion in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 10 (SCA10)

Teresa Almeida,

Affiliation UnIGENe, IBMC- Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Isabel Alonso,

Affiliation UnIGENe, IBMC- Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Sandra Martins,

Affiliation IPATIMUP-Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Eliana Marisa Ramos,

Affiliation UnIGENe, IBMC- Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Luísa Azevedo,

Affiliation IPATIMUP-Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Kinji Ohno,

Affiliation Division of Neurogenetics and Bioinformatics, Center for Neurological Diseases and Cancer, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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António Amorim,

Affiliations IPATIMUP-Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Maria Luiza Saraiva-Pereira,

Affiliation Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Laura Bannach Jardim,

Affiliation Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Tohru Matsuura,

Affiliation Division of Neurogenetics and Bioinformatics, Center for Neurological Diseases and Cancer, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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Jorge Sequeiros,

Affiliations UnIGENe, IBMC- Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, ICBAS, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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Isabel Silveira

* E-mail: isilveir@ibmc.up.pt

Affiliation UnIGENe, IBMC- Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Ancestral Origin of the ATTCT Repeat Expansion in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 10 (SCA10)

Teresa Almeida,
Isabel Alonso,
Sandra Martins,
Eliana Marisa Ramos,
Luísa Azevedo,
Kinji Ohno,
António Amorim,
Maria Luiza Saraiva-Pereira,
Laura Bannach Jardim,
Tohru Matsuura

Published: February 23, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004553

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