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Kennedy's disease

Term ID
DOID:0060161
Synonyms
  • Kennedy disease
  • SBMA
  • spinal bulbar muscular atrophy
  • Spinobulbar Muscular Atrophy
  • X-Linked Bulbo-Spinal Atrophy
  • X-linked Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy
Definition
A spinal muscular dystrophy that has_material_basis_in an X-linked recessive expansion of CAG triplet repeats (glutamine) in exon 1 of AR gene encoding the androgen receptor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_disease
References
Ontology
Human Disease   ( DOID:0060161 )
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