Analysis of the coding and the 5′ flanking regions of the α-synuclein gene in patients with Parkinson's disease

Movement Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1115-1119

  Pastor, Pau ^a   Muñoz, Esteban ^a   Ezquerra, Mario ^b   Obach, Victor ^a   Martí, María José ^a   Valldeoriola, Francesc ^a   Tolosa, Eduard ^a   Oliva, Rafael ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

Author keywords

synuclein; Genetics; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; AMINO ACID; CYTOSINE; DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; VALINE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SCREENING; EXON; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYTOSINE; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GUANINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PEDIGREE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SPAIN; SYNUCLEINS;

EID: 0035526251     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.1198     Document Type: Article

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