Mutations in the gene encoding human persyn are not associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or familial Parkinson's disease

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 274, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-24

  Flowers, Joanna M ^a   Leigh, P Nigel ^a   Davies, Alun M ^b   Ninkina, Natalia N ^b   Buchman, Vladimir L ^b   Vaughan, Jenny ^c   Wood, Nick W ^c   Powell, John F ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Familial Parkinson's disease; Human persyn gene; Polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; SYNUCLEIN; TAQ POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARKINSON DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; FEMALE; GAMMA-SYNUCLEIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PARKINSON DISEASE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 0032886839     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00673-4     Document Type: Article

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