A phenotypic-genetic study of a group of Polish patients with spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 72-79

  Tomik, Barbara ^a   Partyka, Dorota ^a   Sułek, Anna ^b   Kurek Gryz, Elzbieta A ^a   Banach, Marta ^a   Ostrowska, Monika ^a   Zaremba, Jacek ^b   Figlewicz, Denise A ^c   Szczudlik, Andrzej ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Phenotype genotype correlation; SBMA

Indexed keywords

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; CREATINE KINASE; FOLLITROPIN; GENOMIC DNA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE DURATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FASCICULATION; GENOTYPE; GYNECOMASTIA; HAND TREMOR; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHENOTYPE; POLAND; POTENCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ADULT; AGED; DNA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCULAR DISORDERS, ATROPHIC; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POLAND; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 33745090852     PISSN: 17482968     EISSN: 1471180X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17482960600664839     Document Type: Article

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