Identification of the spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 gene using a direct identification of repeat expansion and cloning technique, DIRECT

Nature Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 277-284

  Sanpei, K ^a   Takano, H ^a   Igarashi, S ^a   Sato, T ^a   Oyake, M ^a   Sasaki, H ^b   Wakisaka, A ^b   Tashiro, K ^b   Ishida, Y ^a   Ikeuchi, T ^a   Koide, R ^a   Saito, M ^a   Sato, A ^a   Tanaka, T ^c   Hanyu, S ^d   Takiyama, Y ^d   Nishizawa, M ^d   Shimizu, N ^e   Nomura, Y ^f   Segawa, M ^f   Iwabuchi, K ^g   Eguchi, I ^a   Tanaka, H ^a   Takahashi, H ^a   Tsuji, S ^a   more..

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Segawa Neurological Clinic for Children   (Japan)

^g KANAGAWA REHABILITATION CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAXIA;

NERVE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SCA2 PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PROBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0030292368     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1196-277     Document Type: Article

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