A stop-codon mutation in the BRI gene associated with familial British dementia

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6738, 1999, Pages 776-781

  Vldal, Ruben ^a   Franglone, Blas ^a   Rostagno, Agueda ^a   Mead, Simon ^b   Révészt, Tamas ^c   Plant, Gordon ^b,c   Ghiso, Jorge ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMYLOID; ANTIBODY; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 13; DEMENTIA; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOP CODON;

AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, TERMINATOR; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ATAXIA;

EID: 0033600228     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/21637     Document Type: Article

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