A reproducible assay of polymerase chain reaction to detect trinucleotide repeat expansion of Huntington's disease and senile chorea

Neurological Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 16-18

  Watanabe, Mitsunori ^a   Abe, Koji ^b   Aoki, Masashi ^b   Kameya, Takeshi ^b   Itoyama, Yasuto ^b   Shoji, Mikio ^a   Ikeda, Masaki ^a   Iizuka, Tomomichi ^a   Hirai, Shunsaku ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Huntington's disease; nonradioactive; Pfu DNA polymerase; polymerase chain reaction; senile chorea

Indexed keywords

TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHOREA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENILITY;

EID: 0030025175     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01616412.1996.11740370     Document Type: Article

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