CAG expansion affects the expression of mutant huntingtin in the Huntington's disease brain

Neuron

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 1193-1201

  Aronin, Neil ^a   Chase, Kathryn ^a   Young, Christine ^a   Sapp, Ellen ^c   Schwarz, Cordula ^c   Matta, Nahida ^c   Kornreich, Ruth ^b   Lanwehrmeyer, Bernhard ^c   Bird, Edward ^c   Beal, M Flint ^c   Vonsattel, Jean Paul ^c   Smith, Tom ^a   Carraway, Robert ^a   Boyce, Frederick M ^c   Young, Anne B ^c   Penney, John B ^c   DiFiglia, Marian ^c  

^a Department of Medicine Department of Cell Biology University Massachusetts Medical Center Worcester ^*  (United States)

^b Dianon Systems   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SYNAPTOSOME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MOSAICISM; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028829596     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0896-6273(95)90106-X     Document Type: Article

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