2 Molecular Genetics of the Hereditary Ataxias

Advances in Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue C, 1998, Pages 31-68

  Pandolfo, Massimo ^a,b,c   Montermini, Laura ^a  

^a Centre de Recherche Louis Charles Simard

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRATAXIN; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ATAXIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLASSIFICATION; DOMINANT GENE; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; REVIEW; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ATAXIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GENES, DOMINANT; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IRON-BINDING PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); POINT MUTATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0031614996     PISSN: 00652660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2660(08)60141-8     Document Type: Article

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