Homozygosity for an allele carrying intermediate CAG repeats in the dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) gene results in spastic paraplegia

Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1087-1090

  Kurohara, K ^a   Kuroda, Y ^a   Maruyama, H ^b   Kawakami, H ^b   Yukitake, M ^a   Matsui, M ^a   Nakamura, S ^b  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DENTATORUBROPALLIDOLUYSIAN ATROPHY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0030992098     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.48.4.1087     Document Type: Article

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