Mutations in the proteolipid protein gene in Japanese families with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease

Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 283-285

  Inoue, Ken ^b   Osaka, H ^c   Kawanishi, C ^c   Sugiyama, N ^c   Ishii, M ^a   Sugita, K ^a   Yamada, Y ^c   Kosaka, K ^c  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PATHOGENESIS; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031015929     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.48.1.283     Document Type: Article

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