Machado-Joseph disease: Clinical, molecular, and metabolic characterization in Chinese kindreds

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 446-452

  Soong, Bing Wen ^a,b   Cheng, Chung Hui ^b   Liu, Ren Shyan ^b   Shan, Din E ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BRAIN METABOLISM; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSARTHRIA; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NYSTAGMUS; ONSET AGE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DNA; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; MACHADO-JOSEPH DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TAIWAN; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0030936978     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410410407     Document Type: Article

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