Spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 in Mainland China: Molecular and clinical features in four families

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 25-29

  Jiang, Hong ^a   Tang, Beisha ^a   Xia, Kun ^b   Zhou, Yongxin ^c   Xu, Bo ^a   Zhao, Guohua ^a   Li, Haiyan ^a   Shen, Lu ^a   Pan, Qian ^b   Cai, Fang ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Laboratory of Medical Genetics of China   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele; Anticipation; CACNLIA4; SCA6; Spinocerebellar ataxia; Trinucleotide repeat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA TYPE 6; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; MACHADO-JOSEPH DISEASE; MALE; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 24044477921     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2005.04.009     Document Type: Article

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