Mutations in NR4A2 associated with familial Parkinson disease

Nature Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-89

  Le, Wei dong ^a   Xu, Pingyi ^a   Jankovic, Joseph ^a   Jiang, Hong ^a   Appel, Stanley H ^a   Smith, Roy G ^a   Vassilatis, Demetrios K ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Primal Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EXON; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NR4A2 GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONSET AGE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL LINE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PEDIGREE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0037226797     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1066     Document Type: Article

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