CAG repeat expansion in autosomal dominant pure spastic paraplegia linked to chromosome 2p21-p24

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1811-1816

  Nielsen, Jørgen E ^a   Koefoed, Pernille ^a   Abell, Kathrine ^a   Hasholt, Lis ^a   Eiberg, Hans ^a   Fenger, Kirsten ^a   Niebuhr, Erik ^a   Sørensen, Sven Asger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINE; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENMARK; FAMILY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; PARAPLEGIA; PEDIGREE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030807772     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.11.1811     Document Type: Article

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