Dentatorubral and pallidoluysian atrophy expansion of an unstable CAG trinucleotide on chromosome 12p

Nature Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 14-18

  Nagafuchi, S ^a   Yanagisawa, H ^a   Sato, K ^a   Shirayama, T ^a   Ohsaki, E ^a,b   Bundo, M ^a,b   Takeda, T ^a,b   Tadokoro, K ^a   Kondo, I ^c   Murayama, N ^c   Tanaka, Y ^c   Kikushima, H ^d   Umino, K ^d   Kurosawa, H ^d   Furukawa, T ^d   Nihei, K ^e   Inoue, T ^b   Sano, A ^c   Komure, O ^f   Takahashi, M ^g   Yoshizawa, T ^h   Kanazawa, I ⁱ   Yamada, M ^a   more..

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BRAIN ATROPHY; CHROMOSOME 12P; DENTATE GYRUS; DENTATORUBROPALLIDOLUYSIAN ATROPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATROPHY; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 12; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PEDIGREE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0028335386     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0194-14     Document Type: Article

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