Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy: Androgen receptor dysfunction caused by a trinucleotide repeat expansion

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 149-157

  MacLean, Helen E ^a   Warne, Garry L ^a   Zajac, Jeffrey D ^b  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Kennedy's disease; Nervous system; Neurodegenerative disease; Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy; Trinucleotide repeat

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NERVE DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030066136     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-510X(95)00284-9     Document Type: Article

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