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Science 26 April 2002:
Vol. 296. no. 5568, p. 644
DOI: 10.1126/science.296.5568.644
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE:
Another Disease Blights Families in Siberia's Far North

Richard Stone

Virologist Lev Goldfarb was instantly suspicious when in 1969 he was shown a subset of patients with, he was told, "a certain form" of Viliuisk encephalomyelitis (VE). After learning that all the supposed VE patients were related to each other, he discovered that these people were suffering from spinocerebellar ataxia type 1, a disease passed from generation to generation through a faulty dominant gene.

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