Alexander disease: GFAP mutations unify young and old

Lancet Neurology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 75-

  Messing, Albee ^a   Brenner, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ALEXANDER DISEASE; ASTROCYTE; CLINICAL FEATURE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATOR GENE; ONSET AGE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; SHORT SURVEY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; GENETICS; MOUSE; MUTATION; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGE OF ONSET; ALEXANDER DISEASE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION;

EID: 0042011502     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(03)00301-6     Document Type: Letter

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