ARSACS, a spastic ataxia common in northeastern Quebec, is caused by mutations in a new gene encoding an 11.5-kb ORF

Nature Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 120-125

  Engert, James C ^a   Bérubé, Pierre ^a   Mercier, Jocelyne ^b   Doré, Carole ^a   Lepage, Pierre ^a   Ge, Bing ^a   Bouchard, Jean Pierre ^c   Mathieu, Jean ^d   Melançon, Serge B ^b   Schalling, Martin ^e   Lander, Eric S ^f   Morgan, Kenneth ^a,g   Hudson, Thomas J ^a,f,g   Richter, Andrea ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d CHICOUTIMI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CANADA; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ATAXIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0343384355     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/72769     Document Type: Article

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