Atypical parkinsonism and SCA8

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 191-192

  Munhoz, Renato P ^a,b   Teive, Hélio A ^a   Raskin, Salmo ^c   Troiano, André R ^a,d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c Genetika Laboratory   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSTONIA; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LETTER; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCA8 GENE; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME;

HUMANS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS;

EID: 33646006084     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2005.10.001     Document Type: Letter

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