title: Itajaí, Santa Catarina - Azorean ancestry and spinocerebellar ataxia type 3.
abstract: The authors present a historical review of spinocerebellar ataxia type 3/Machado-Joseph disease (SCA3/MJD), the most common form of spinocerebellar ataxia in Brazil, and consider the high frequency of cases in families from Itajaí, a city on the coast of the state of Santa Catarina with a large population of Portuguese/Azorean descent.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Hospital de Clínicas, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Serviço de Neurologia, Unidade de Distúrbios do Movimento, Curitiba PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Hélio A G
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Teive
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Hospital de Clínicas, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Serviço de Neurologia, Unidade de Distúrbios do Movimento, Curitiba PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Adriana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moro
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Hospital de Clínicas, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Serviço de Neurologia, Unidade de Distúrbios do Movimento, Curitiba PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Walter O
authors.initials: WO
authors.lastname: Arruda
authors.affiliation: Laboratório Genetika, Curitiba PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Salmo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Raskin
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Humanas e Educação, Florianópolis SC, Brasil.
authors.forename: Gladys M G
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Teive
authors.forename: Norberto
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dallabrida
authors.affiliation: University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Movement Disorders Centre, Ontário ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Renato P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Munhoz
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil / Q000208:ethnology; D005190:Family; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D017827:Machado-Joseph Disease / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history*