Juvenile Huntington's disease: Does a dosage-effect pathogenic mechanism differ from the classical adult disease?

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 208-212

  Squitieri, Ferdinando ^a   Frati, Luigi ^b   Ciarmiello, Andrea ^c   Lastoria, Secondo ^c   Quarrell, Oliver ^d  

^a IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^d SHEFFIELD CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age at onset; Clinics of juvenile Huntington disease; Genetics of Huntington disease; Infantile Huntington disease; Juvenile Huntington disease

Indexed keywords

POLYGLUTAMINE;

BIOPHYSICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE COURSE; GENE MUTATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 31544447731     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2005.09.012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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