Spinocerebellar ataxia type 6: Molecular and clinical features of 35 Japanese patients including one homozygous for the CAG repeat expansion

Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1238-1243

  Matsumura, Ryusuke ^a,b   Futamura, N ^a   Fujimoto, Y ^a   Yanagimoto, S ^a   Horikawa, H ^a   Suzumura, A ^a   Takayanagi, T ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEIOSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EID: 0030679611     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.49.5.1238     Document Type: Article

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