Machado-Joseph disease and SCA3: the genotype meets the phenotypes

Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 4-8

  Junck, Larry ^a   Fink, John K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION;

GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MACHADO-JOSEPH DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS;

EID: 0029690663     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.46.1.4     Document Type: Editorial

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