Analysis of CAG trinucleotide expansion associated with Machado-Joseph disease

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 136, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 101-107

  Watanabe, Mitsunori ^a,b   Abe, Koji ^a   Aoki, Masashi ^a   Kameya, Takeshi ^a   Kaneko, Jin ^c   Shoji, Mikio ^b   Ikeda, Masaki ^b   Shizuka, Masami ^b   Ikeda, Yoshio ^b   Iizuka, Tomomichi ^b   Hirai, Shunsaku ^b   Itoyama, Yasuto ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Ota General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anticipation; CAG repeat; Machado Joseph disease; Somatic mosaicism; Sperm; Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM;

EID: 0029969662     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-510X(95)00307-N     Document Type: Article

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