SCA5 OR LINCOLN ATAXIA?
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Dr. Sotos1 describes evidence that President Abraham Lincoln and his father Thomas Lincoln did not have the type 5 spinocerebellar (SCA5) phenotype based on handwriting samples and historical references to their gait, and limb function.
In 1997, Nee and Higgins2 considered the SCA5 locus3 when they evaluated a 6-generation family with an unknown type of autosomal dominant ataxia from Rockingham County, VA, which was the birthplace of President Abraham Lincoln's paternal grandmother, Bathsheba Herring. Analyses of 2 signatures from deeds executed …
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