Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia type III: Linkage in a large british family to a 7.6-cM region on chromosome 15.q14-21.3

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 420-426

  Worth, P F ^a   Giunti, P ^a   Gardner Thorpe, C ^b   Dixon, P H ^a   Davis, M B ^a   Wood, N W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME 22; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNDROME DELINEATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATAXIA;

EID: 0033358555     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302495     Document Type: Article

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