PS1 Alzheimer's disease family with spastic paraplegia: The search for a gene modifier

Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1005-1007

  Rogaeva, Ekaterina ^a   Bergeron, C ^a,b   Sato, C ^a   Moliaka, I ^a   Kawarai, T ^a   Toulina, A ^a   Song, Y Q ^a   Kolesnikova, T ^a   Orlacchio, A ^c,d   Bernardi, G ^c,d   St George Hyslop, P H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; PRESENILIN 1;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA;

EID: 10744224527     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.61.7.1005     Document Type: Article

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