No pathogenic mutations in the β-synuclein gene in Parkinson's disease

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 107-109

  Lincoln, Sarah ^a   Crook, Richard ^a   Chartier Harlin, Marie Christine ^b,c   Gwinn Hardy, Katrina ^a   Baker, Matt ^a   Mouroux, Vincent ^b   Richard, Florence ^c   Becquet, Estelle ^c   Amouyel, Philippe ^b,c   Destée, Alain ^c   Hardy, John ^a   Farrer, Matt ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

^c LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

synuclein; Genetics; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; BETA SYNUCLEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MARKER CHROMOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARKINSON DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; BETA-SYNUCLEIN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 5; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PEDIGREE; SYNUCLEINS;

EID: 0033538478     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00420-6     Document Type: Article

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