Spinocerebellar ataxia type 14: Opening a new door in dominant ataxia research?

Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1113-1114

  Pandolfo, Massimo ^a   Van De Warrenburg, Bart P C ^b  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GROWTH FACTOR; POLYGLUTAMINE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE C GAMMA;

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DYSTONIA; EDITORIAL; EXON; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FGF 14 GENE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MYOCLONUS; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRKCG GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA TYPE 14; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION;

EID: 16844369843     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000160013.10806.53     Document Type: Editorial

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