Prenatal diagnosis of Machado-Joseph disease/spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3 in Taiwan: Early detection of expanded Ataxin-3

Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 195-200

  Tsai, Hui Fang ^a   Liu, Chin San ^b   Chen, Gin Den ^c   Lin, Mei Ling ^c   Li, Chuan ^a   Chen, Yi Yun ^b   Wang, Bao Tyan ^b   Hsieh, Mingli ^a,d  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CAG trinucleotide repeats; Machado Joseph disease; Prenatal diagnosis; Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ATAXIN 3; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLELISM; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CASE REPORT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; MJD GENE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PATIENT COUNSELING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TAIWAN;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; ALLELES; AMNIOCENTESIS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; FETUS; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MACHADO-JOSEPH DISEASE; MALE; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TAIWAN; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

ATAXIA;

EID: 0141594981     PISSN: 08878013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcla.10092     Document Type: Article

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