A distinct autosomal recessive ataxia maps to chromosome 12in an inbred family from Jordan

Brain and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 353-357

  El Shanti, Hatem ^a   Daoud, Azhar ^b   Sadoon, Ammar A ^b   Leal, Suzanne M ^c   Chen, Shan ^a   Lee, Kwanghyuk ^c   Spiegel, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Action tremor; Ataxia; Atonic seizures; Chromosome 12; Epilepsy; Linkage analysis; Progressive myoclonus epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; ATONIC SEIZURE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CEREBELLUM HYPOPLASIA; CHROMOSOME 12; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; GENOME; HUMAN; JORDAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PERICENTRIC CHROMOSOME INVERSION; SIBLING; TREMOR;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; ATAXIA; CHILD; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 12; CONSANGUINITY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; HUMANS; JORDAN; LOD SCORE; MALE; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSIES, PROGRESSIVE; PEDIGREE;

EID: 33646488506     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2005.11.003     Document Type: Article

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