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Saccade velocity as a surrogate disease marker in spinocerebellar ataxia type 2
C Seifried1, L Velázquez-Pérez, N Santos-Falcón
1Clinic for Neurology, University Hospital, Frankfurt, am Main, Germany.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|April 14, 2005
Abstract:
We measured in 82 spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2) patients and in 80 controls maximal saccade velocity (MSV) and correlated it to polyglutamine expansion size and disease duration. MSV is strongly decreased in SCA2 patients and is influenced mostly by polyglutamine size.

