Early-onset ALS with long-term survival associated with spastin gene mutation

Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 141-143

  Meyer, Thomas ^a   Schwan, A ^b   Dullinger, J S ^a   Brocke, J ^a   Hoffmann, K T ^a   Nolte, C H ^a   Hopt, A ^a   Kopp, U ^a   Andersen, P ^c   Epplen, J T ^b   Linke, P ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; SPASTIN;

AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONSET AGE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BULBAR PALSY, PROGRESSIVE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 22044432063     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000167130.31618.0a     Document Type: Article

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