title: CAG repeat expansion of Machado-Joseph disease in the Japanese: analysis of the repeat instability for parental transmission, and correlation with disease phenotype.
abstract: Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) is caused by abnormal expansion of an unstable CAG repeat in a novel gene locating on chromosome 14q32.1. We analysed this CAG repeat polymorphism with 66 Japanese MJD patients. All the patients were selectively associated with abnormal expansion of the CAG repeat. Repeat length of the mutant allele did not overlap that of normal allele and closely correlated with not only age at onset but also with clinical phenotypes. CAG repeat size is apparently related to a wide variety of phenotypic presentations in MJD.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wakisaka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukazawa
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iwabuchi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hamada
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Takada
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mukai
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsuura
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshiki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tashiro
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D000483:Alleles; D001483:Base Sequence; D002883:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D017827:Machado-Joseph Disease / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D010290:Parents; D010641:Phenotype; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D012727:Sex Characteristics