Epidemiology
The prevalence of DRPLA in the Japanese population is believed to be 0.2-0.7 in 100,000. DRPLA is observed relatively less frequently in other ethnic populations and an analysis of normal ATN1 alleles has demonstrated that CAG repeat length greater than 17 are significantly more frequent in the Japanese population.
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