Argyrophilic grain disease: Molecular genetic difference to other four-repeat tauopathies

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 363-366

  Miserez, André R ^a   Clavaguera, Florence ^a   Monsch, Andreas U ^a   Probst, Alphonse ^a   Tolnay, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Argyrophilic grain disease; Four repeat tauopathies; Tau H1 haplotype

Indexed keywords

DNA; TAU PROTEIN;

AGED; ARGYROPHILIC GRAIN DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAUOPATHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY, PROGRESSIVE; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES;

EID: 0142062477     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-003-0742-x     Document Type: Article

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