Dopa-responsive dystonia in British patients: New mutations of the GTP-cyclohydrolase I gene and evidence for genetic heterogeneity

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 403-406

  Bandmann, Oliver ^a   Nygaard, Torbjoern G ^b   Surtees, Robert ^c   Marsden, C David ^a   Wood, Nicholas W ^a   Harding, Anita E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOPA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSTONIA; EXON; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; JAPAN; MALE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOP CODON; UNITED KINGDOM;

DOPAMINE AGENTS; DYSTONIA; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; LEVODOPA; MALE; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0030059804     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.3.403     Document Type: Article

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