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Patient reported age of onset, by decade. Most patients first report symptoms starting in their teens or twenties, with a subset noticing symptoms later in life. The subjective nature of age of onset does not fully account for the variability in patient reported age of onset, as several patients who noticed symptoms late in life had early stage disease at initial presentation.
