A screening for superoxide dismutase-1 D90A mutation in Italian patients with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Other Motor Neuron Disorders

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 215-218

  Mancuso, Michelangelo ^a,c   Filosto, Massimiliano ^b,c   Naini, Ali ^c   Rocchi, Anna ^a   Del Corona, Alberto ^a   Sartucci, Ferdinando ^a   Siciliano, Gabriele ^a   Murri, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

ALS; D90A; SOD 1

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ASPARTIC ACID; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARESIS; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SCANDINAVIA; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SURVIVAL;

EID: 12244286723     PISSN: 14660822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/146608202760839007     Document Type: Review

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