A patient with 2 different repeat expansion mutations

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1199-1203

  Nokelainen, Pekka ^a   Heiskala, Hannu ^b   Lehesjoki, Anna Elina ^c   Kaski, Markus ^b  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Rinnekoti Foundation Finland   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DETERIORATION; DISABILITY; DNA DETERMINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EID: 0033904705     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.57.8.1199     Document Type: Article

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