Late-onset pure cerebellar ataxia: Differentiating those with and without identifiable mutations

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 238, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 41-45

  Kerber, Kevin A ^a   Jen, Joanna C ^a   Perlman, Susan ^a   Baloh, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ataxia; Genetic; Idiopathic; Late onset; Spinocerebellar

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MALE; NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTATION; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS;

EID: 27644473572     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2005.06.006     Document Type: Article

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