Multiple founder effects in Japanese families with primary torsion dystonia harboring the GAG deletion in the TOR1A (DYT1) gene [1]

Neurogenetics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 105-106

  Ikeuchi, Takeshi ^a   Nomura, Yoshiko ^b   Segawa, Masaya ^b   Ozelius, Laurie J ^c   Shimohata, Takayoshi ^a   Tsuji, Shoji ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Segawa Children's Neurol Hospital   (Japan)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

GAG deletion; Primary torsion dystonia; TOR1A (DYT1) gene

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; GUANINE;

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELETION MUTANT; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; TOR1A GENE; TORSION DYSTONIA;

CARRIER PROTEINS; DYSTONIA MUSCULORUM DEFORMANS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE DELETION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES;

EID: 0036818763     PISSN: 13646745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10048-002-0135-7     Document Type: Letter

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