The variable phenotype of FXTAS: A common cause of “idiopathic” disorders

Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 190-191

  Kamm, Christoph ^a   Gasser, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FAMILY HISTORY; FMR1 GENE; FRAGILE X ASSOCIATED TREMOR ATAXIA SYNDROME; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL RETARDATION MALFORMATION SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSONISM; PHENOTYPE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; SYNDROME DELINEATION; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 22544486593     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000171744.95027.aa     Document Type: Editorial

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