The tau gene in progressive supranuclear palsy: Exclusion of mutations in coding exons and exon 10 splice sites, and identification of a new intronic variant of the disease-associated H1 haplotype in Italian cases

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 274, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-65

  Bonifati, Vincenzo ^a   Joosse, Marijke ^b   Nicholl, David J ^c   Vanacore, Nicola ^a   Bennett, Phil ^c   Rizzu, Patrizia ^b   Fabbrini, Giovanni ^a   Marconi, Roberto ^d   Colosimo, Carlo ^a   Locuratolo, Nicoletta ^a   Stocchi, Fabrizio ^a   Bonuccelli, Ubaldo ^e   De Mari, Michele ^f   Wenning, Gregor ^g   Vieregge, Peter ^h   Oostra, Ben ^b   Meco, Giuseppe ^a   Heutink, Peter ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c University Department of Psychiatry   (United Kingdom)

^d MISERICORDIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^g MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

+39 G variant; Exon 4; Progressive supranuclear palsy; R406W mutation; Sequencing; Splicing effect; Tau gene

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA SPLICING;

AGED; ALLELES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTRONS; ITALY; MUTATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA SPLICING; SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY, PROGRESSIVE; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0032887313     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00669-2     Document Type: Article

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