A novel haplotype of spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 contributes to the highest prevalence in Western Japan

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 358, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 107-110

  Terasawa, Hideo ^a   Oda, Masaya ^a   Morino, Hiroyuki ^a   Miyachi, Takafumi ^a   Izumi, Yuishin ^a   Maruyama, Hirofumi ^a   Matsumoto, Masayasu ^a   Kawakami, Hideshi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CACNA1A; CAG repeat; Founder effect; Haplotype; Microsatellite; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Spinocerebellar ataxia type 6

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREVALENCE; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS;

EID: 1542509359     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.01.007     Document Type: Article

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