Familial congenital hydrocephalus and aqueduct stenosis with probably autosomal dominant inheritance and variable expression

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 101-105

  Verhagen, Wim I M ^a   Bartels, Ronald H A M ^b   Fransen, Erik ^c   Van Camp, Guy ^c   Renier, Willy O ^b   Grotenhuis, J André ^b  

^a CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aqueduct stenosis; Autopsy; Autosomal dominant inheritance; Congenital hydrocephalus; Molecular genetics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BRAIN AQUEDUCT STENOSIS; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ADULT; CEREBRAL AQUEDUCT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; LEUKOCYTE L1 ANTIGEN COMPLEX; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; PEDIGREE; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032507894     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(98)00097-5     Document Type: Article

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