Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in uncoding regions of ALS2 gene of Japanese patients with autosomal-recessive amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Neurological Research

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 505-509

  Nagano, Isao ^a   Murakami, Tetsuro ^a   Shiote, Mito ^a   Manabe, Yasuhiro ^a   Hadano, Shinji ^b   Yanagisawa, Yoshiko ^b   Ikeda, Joh E ^b   Abe, Koji ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ALS; ALS2; ALS2 gene; Autosomal recessive ALS; Deletion mutations; SNPs

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR;

ADULT; ALS2 GENE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELETION MUTANT; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INTRON; MALE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HUMANS; INTRONS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 0037489514     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164103101201733     Document Type: Article

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