CAG expansions in a novel gene for Machado-Joseph disease at chromosome 14q32.1

Nature Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 221-228

  Kawaguchi, Yoshiya ^a   Okamoto, Toshihiro ^a   Taniwaki, Masafumi ^b   Aizawa, Megumi ^a   Inoue, Miho ^a   Katayama, Sadao ^c   Kawakami, Hideshi ^c   Nakamura, Shigenobu ^c   Nishimura, Masaki ^a   Akiguchi, Ichiro ^a   Kimura, Jun ^a   Narumiya, Shuh ^a   Kakizuka, Akira ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOME 14Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; FEMALE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 14; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, STRUCTURAL; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MACHADO-JOSEPH DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PEDIGREE; PROTEINS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028143527     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1194-221     Document Type: Article

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