Studies of atypical JNCL suggest overlapping with other NCL forms

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 36-40

  Wisniewski, Krystyna E ^a,b   Zhong, Nan ^a   Kaczmarski, Wojciech ^a   Kaczmarski, Aleksandra ^a   Sklower Brooks, Susan ^a   Brown, William T ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALE; NEURONAL CEROID LIPOFUSCINOSIS; ONSET AGE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0031915659     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(97)00188-4     Document Type: Article

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