Description of a simple test for CADASIL disease and determination of mutation frequencies in sporadic ischaemic stroke and dementia patients

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 652-654

  Wang, Tao ^a   Sharma, Sapna D ^a   Fox, Nick ^c   Rossor, Martin ^c   Brown, Morris J ^a   Sharma, Pankaj ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allele frequencies; Cadasil; Polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; EXON; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SCREENING TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA, MULTI-INFARCT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

EID: 0033785342     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.69.5.652     Document Type: Article

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