Defining the ends of parkin exon 4 deletions in two different families with parkinson's disease

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 133 B, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 120-123

  Clarimon, Jordi ^a,f   Johnson, Janel ^a   Dogu, Okan ^b   Horta, Wagner ^c   Khan, Naheed ^d   Lees, Andrew J ^e   Hardy, John ^a   Singleton, Andrew ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetics; Mutation; PARK2; Recessive juvenile Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

PARKIN;

ARTICLE; EXON; FAMILY STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; ONSET AGE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; BRAZIL; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; TURKEY; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

GENETTA;

EID: 12944275541     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.30119     Document Type: Article

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