Equine motor neuron disease is not linked to Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase mutations: Sequence analysis of the equine Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase cDNA

Gene

Volumn 178, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 83-88

  De La Rúa Domènech, Ricardo ^a   Wiedmann, Martin ^b   Mohammed, Hussni O ^a   Cummings, John F ^a   Divers, Thomas J ^a   Batt, Carl A ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector Borne Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; EMND SOD1 linkage; Horse; RT PCR cloning

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HORSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILENT GENE;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0347019746     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00339-3     Document Type: Article

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