Taiwanese cases of SCA2 are derived from a single founder

Movement Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1633-1636

  Momeni, Parastoo ^a   Lu, Chin Song ^b   Chou, Yah Huei ^b   Chang, Hsiu Chen ^b   Chen, Rou Shayn ^b   Chen, Chiung Chu ^b   Hsu, Jin Tian ^c   Singleton, Andrew ^a   Hardy, John ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ataxic phenotype; Common founder; Haplotype; Parkinson; SCA2

Indexed keywords

ATAXIN 2; GENE PRODUCT; TRINUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NERVE PROTEIN; SCA2 PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TAIWAN; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; ATAXIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARKINSON DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; ATAXIA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PARKINSON DISEASE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TAIWAN;

EID: 33644966536     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20638     Document Type: Article

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