Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2: Genotype and phenotype in German kindreds

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1073-1080

  Schöls, Ludger ^a   Gispert, Suzana ^c   Vorgerd, Matthias ^b   Menezes Vieira Saecker, Ana Maria ^b   Blanke, Peter ^a   Auburger, Georg ^c   Amoiridis, Georgios ^a   Meves, Saskia ^a   Epplen, Jörg T ^b   Przuntek, Horst ^a   Pulst, Stefan M ^d   Riess, Olaf ^b  

^a ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION;

EID: 15444348424     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1997.00550210011007     Document Type: Article

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