Genetic anticipation in Portuguese kindreds with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy is unlikely to be caused by triplet repeat expansions

Human Genetics

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 480-485

  Soares, Miguel ^a,b   Buxbaum, Joel ^c,d   Sirugo, Giorgio ^e   Coelho, Teresa ^a,f   Sousa, Aida ^a,f,g   Kastner, Daniel ^b   Saraiva, Maria João ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f Centro de Estudos de Paramiloidose   (Portugal)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID NEUROPATHY; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MALE; ONSET AGE; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ALLELES; AMYLOID NEUROPATHIES; ANTICIPATION, GENETIC; CHILD; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 0032788532     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050991     Document Type: Article

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