Frequency of spinocerebellar ataxia mutations in the Kinki district of Japan

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 38-41

  Matsumura, Ryusuke ^a   Futamura, N ^b   Ando, N ^a   Ueno, S ^c  

^a Nishinara National Hospital   (Japan)

^b Japan   (Japan)

^c NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia; Frequency; Japanese; Spinocerebellar ataxia; Sporadic cases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; DENTATORUBROPALLIDOLUYSIAN ATROPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; MACHADO-JOSEPH DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSIES, PROGRESSIVE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0037271629     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0404.2003.01347.x     Document Type: Article

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