Characterization of the human α-synuclein gene: Genomic structure, transcription start site, promoter region and polymorphisms

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 485-494

  Xia, Yu ^a   Saitoh, Tsunao ^b   Uéda, Kenji ^c   Tanaka, Seigo ^a   Chen, Xiaohua ^b   Hashimoto, Makoto ^c   Hsu, Leigh ^a   Conrad, Chris ^b   Sundsmo, Mary ^a   Yoshimoto, Makoto ^b   Thal, Leon ^c   Katzman, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; AMYLOID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOSINE; ISOPROTEIN; THYMINE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; LEWY BODY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SPLICING; START CODON; STOP CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 0034755275     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-2001-3508     Document Type: Article

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