Brain regional differences in the expansion of a CAG repeat in the spinocerebellar ataxias: Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy, Machado- Joseph disease, and spinocerebellar ataxia type 1

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 505-511

  Hashida, Hideji ^a   Goto, Jun ^a   Kurisaki, Hiroshi ^b   Mizusawa, Hidehiro ^c   Kanazawa, Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENTATORUBROPALLIDOLUYSIAN ATROPHY; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; MALE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOSAICISM; NERVE DEGENERATION; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0030936576     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410410414     Document Type: Article

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