Founder effect in spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA)

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1253-1257

  Tanaka, Fumiaki ^a   Doyu, Manabu ^a   Ito, Yasuhiro ^a   Matsumoto, Michiyo ^a,b   Mitsuma, Terunori ^b   Abe, Koji ^c   Aoki, Masashi ^c   Itoyama, Yasuto ^c   Fischbeck, Kenneth H ^d   Sobue, Gen ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 10144259358     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.9.1253     Document Type: Article

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