Cloning of the gene for spinooerebellar ataxia 2 reveals a locus with high sensitivity to expanded CAG/glutamine repeats

Nature Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 285-291

  Imbert, Georges ^a   Saudou, Frédéric ^a   Yvert, Gaël ^a   Devys, Didier ^a   Trottier, Yvon ^a   Garnier, Jean Marie ^a   Weber, Chantal ^a   Mandel, Jean Louis ^a   Cancel, Géraldine ^b   Abbas, Nacer ^b   Dürr, Alexandra ^b   Didierjean, Olivier ^b   Stevanin, Giovanni ^b   Agid, Yves ^b   Brice, Alexis ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAXIA;

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NERVE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SCA2 PROTEIN; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONSET AGE; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS; TATA-BOX BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0030294345     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1196-285     Document Type: Article

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