A gene (ETM) for essential tremor maps to chromosome 2p22-p25

Movement Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 859-864

  Higgins, Joseph J ^a   Pho, Lana T ^a   Nee, Linda E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Essential tremor; Human chromosome 2p; Linkage analysis

Indexed keywords

TRINUCLEOTIDE;

CHROMOSOME 2P; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FAMILY STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; CZECH REPUBLIC; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREMOR; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; UNITED STATES; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030725721     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870120605     Document Type: Review

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