Close associations between prevalences of dominantly inherited spinocerebellar ataxias with CAG-repeat expansions and frequencies of large normal CAG alleles in Japanese and Caucasian populations

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1060-1066

  Takano, H ^a   Cancel, G ^b   Ikeuchi, T ^a   Lorenzetti, D ^c   Mawad, R ^c   Stevanin, G ^b   Didierjean, O ^b   Durr A ^b   Oyake, M ^a   Shimohata, T ^a   Sasaki, R ^a   Koide, R ^a   Igarashi, S ^a   Hayashi, S ^a   Takiyama, Y ^d   Nishizawa, M ^d   Tanaka, H ^a   Zoghbi, H ^c   Brice, A ^b   Tsuji, S ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PEDIGREE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION;

EID: 0032231668     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302067     Document Type: Article

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