Genetic testing in spinocerebellar ataxia in Taiwan: Expansions of trinucleotide repeats in SCA8 and SCA17 are associated with typical Parkinson's disease

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 209-214

  Wu, Y R ^a   Lin, H Y ^a   Chen, Chiung Mei ^a   Gwinn Hardy, K ^b   Ro, L S ^a   Wang, Y C ^a   Li, S H ^c   Hwang, J C ^a   Fang, K ^a   Hsieh Li, H M ^a   Li, M L ^a   Tung, L C ^a   Su, M T ^a   Lu, K T ^a   Lee Chen, Guoy Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Genetic testing; Phenotypical variability; SCA8 and SCA17; Trinucleotide repeat expansion

Indexed keywords

DNA; LEVODOPA; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BRADYKINESIA; CAUCASIAN; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CHINESE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATORUBROPALLIDOLUYSIAN ATROPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; JAPAN; LIMB DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; ONSET AGE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAIWAN; TREMOR; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSIES, PROGRESSIVE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS; TAIWAN; TATA-BOX BINDING PROTEIN; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

ATAXIA;

EID: 10744231577     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0009-9163.2004.00213.x     Document Type: Article

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