The prevalence and wide clinical spectrum of the spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 trinucleotide repeat in patients with autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 842-850

  Geschwind, Daniel H ^a   Perlman, Susan ^a   Figueroa, Carla P ^b   Treiman, Lucy J ^a   Pulst, Stefan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENTATORUBROPALLIDOLUYSIAN ATROPHY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRATION SENSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ATROPHY; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; MACHADO-JOSEPH DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

ATAXIA;

EID: 0030944114     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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