Spinal muscular atrophy among the Roma (Gypsies) in Bulgaria and Hungary

Neuromuscular Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 378-385

  Jordanova, Albena ^a   Kargaci, Veronika ^b   Kremensky, Ivo ^a   Litvinenko, Ivan ^c   Uzunova, Maria ^c   Turnev, Ivajlo ^c   Ishpekova, Borjana ^a   Herzegfalvi, Agnes ^d   Simeonova, Irina ^a   Kalaydjieva, Luba ^e,f  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b Foder Jozsef National Centre for Public Health   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ALEXANDROVSKA   (Bulgaria)

^d HEIM PÁL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Hungary)

^e EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gypsies; SMN1; SMN2; Spinal muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BULGARIA; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GIPSY; HEREDITARY SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; HUMAN; HUNGARY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BULGARIA; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; GYPSIES; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; HUNGARY; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0036227674     PISSN: 09608966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-8966(01)00283-8     Document Type: Article

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