Prevalence of dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy in a large series of white patients with cerebellar ataxia

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1097-1099

  Le Ber, Isabelle ^a   Camuzat, Agnès ^a   Castelnovo, Giovanni ^b   Azulay, Jean Philippe ^c   Genton, Pierre ^d   Gastaut, Jean Louis ^d,e   Broglin, Dominique ^d   Labauge, Pierre ^b   Brice, Alexis ^a   Dürr, Alexandra ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d Hôpital H Gastaut   (France)

^e HÔPITAL SAINTE MARGUERITE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; DENTATORUBRAL PALLIDOLUYSIAN ATROPHY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATORUBROPALLIDOLUYSIAN ATROPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EUROPE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; BRAIN; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSIES, PROGRESSIVE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0042524612     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.60.8.1097     Document Type: Article

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