SCA8 in the Spanish population including one homozygous patient

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 404-409

  Tazon B ^a   Badenas, C ^a   Jimenez L ^a   Munoz E ^a   Mila M ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

ADCA; CTA CTG expansion; SCA8

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; PRIMER DNA; THYMINE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; DYSARTHRIA; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEREDITARY ATAXIA; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NYSTAGMUS; ONSET AGE; PENETRANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; SPAIN; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS;

ATAXIA;

EID: 0036873016     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0004.2002.620509.x     Document Type: Article

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