Atypical clinical presentations of x-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy in patients with mild cag expansions in androgen receptor gene

European Neurology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 310-312

  Igarashi, S ^a   Yonemochi, Y ^a   Tanaka, K ^a   Inuzuka, T ^a   Oyanagi, K ^a   Ikuta, F ^a   Aoki, K ^b   Horikawa, Y ^b   Morita, T ^b   Tsuji, S ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Shinrakuen Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CREATINE KINASE; DNA; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DNA DETERMINATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

AGED; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030661859     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: 14219913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000113400     Document Type: Article

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