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ID | DOID:14784 |
Name | olivopontocerebellar atrophy |
Definition | A neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by progressive cerebellar ataxia, leading to clumsiness in body movements, veering from midline when walking, wide-based stance, and falls without signs of paralysis or weakness and has_material_basis_in expansion of CAG triplet repeats (glutamine) resulting in degeneration of neuron in the cerebellum, pons and inferior olives. http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/opca/opca.htm |
Xrefs |
SNOMEDCT_US_2023_03_01:67761004 |
Alternateids |
DOID:12708 |
Subsets |
DO_FlyBase_slim NCIthesaurus |
Synonyms |
Dejerine-Thomas syndrome [EXACT] Thomas' syndrome [EXACT] WADIA-SWAMI SYNDROME [EXACT] |
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