Incidence of dominant spinocerebellar and Friedreich triplet repeats among 361 ataxia families

Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1666-1671

  Moseley, M L ^a,e   Benzow, K A ^b   Schut, L J ^c   Bird, T D ^d   Gomez, C M ^e   Barkhaus, P E ^a   Blindauer, K A ^b   Labuda, M ^b   Pandolfo, M ^c   Koob, M D ^d   Ranum, L P W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e UNIV OF MINNESOTA HOSP AND CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INHERITANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031647246     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.51.6.1666     Document Type: Article

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