The relationship of spinal muscular atrophy to motor neuron disease: Investigation of SMN and NAIP gene deletions in sporadic and familial ALS

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 55-61

  Orrell, Richard W ^a,b   Habgood, James J ^a   De Belleroche, Jacqueline S ^a   Lane, Russell J M ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; genetics; NAIP; progressive muscular atrophy; SMN; spinal muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 5; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONAL APOPTOSIS-INHIBITORY PROTEIN; PHENOTYPE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 0030899577     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(96)00240-7     Document Type: Article

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