Variants in the ALS2 gene are not associated with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [2]

Neurogenetics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 221-222

  Al Chalabi, Ammar ^a,b   Hansen, Valerie K ^b   Simpson, Claire L ^b   Xi, Jing ^a   Hosler, Betsy A ^a   Powell, John F ^b   McKenna Yasek, Diane ^a   Shaw, Christopher E ^b,c   Leigh, P Nigel ^b   Brown Jr , Robert H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ALS2 gene; Alsin; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Association study; DNA pooling

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ADULT; ALLELE; ALS2 GENE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MORTALITY; MOTONEURON; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CHILD; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 0141568940     PISSN: 13646745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10048-003-0152-1     Document Type: Letter

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