Spinocerebellar ataxia in monozygotic twins

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1945-1951

  Anderson, John H ^a   Christova, Peka S ^a   Xie, Ting dong ^a   Schott, Kelly S ^a   Ward, Kenneth ^b   Gomez, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURE; SACCADES; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0036897426     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.59.12.1945     Document Type: Article

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