The status of SCA1, MJD/SCA3, FRDA, DRPLA and MD triplet containing genes in patients with huntington disease and healthy controls

Journal of Neurogenetics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 257-263

  Keckarevic, Dusan ^a   Culjkovic, Biljana ^a   Savic, Dusanka ^a   Stojkovic, Oliver ^a   Kostic, Vladimir ^a   Vukosavic, Slobodanka ^b   Romac, Stanka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Expansion; Mutant alleles; PCR analyses; Trinucleotide repeats

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EID: 0034444073     PISSN: 01677063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01677060009084502     Document Type: Article

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