Identification of a major susceptibility locus for restless legs syndrome on chromosome 12q

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1266-1270

  Desautels, Alex ^a,b   Turecki, Gustavo ^b   Montplaisir, Jacques ^a   Sequeira, Adolfo ^b   Verner, Andrei ^c   Rouleau, Guy A ^b,c  

^a HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CALCULATION; CANADA; CHROMOSOME 12Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP DISORDER;

EID: 0035208888     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/324649     Document Type: Article

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