Susceptibility genes in sporadic ALS: Separating the wheat from the chaff by international collaboration

Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 738-739

  Shaw, Christopher E ^a,b   Al Chalabi, Ammar ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University Department of Neurology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; ARYLDIALKYLPHOSPHATASE; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; EDITORIAL; FAMILY STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARYLDIALKYLPHOSPHATASE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 33748685457     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000238979.73142.cd     Document Type: Editorial

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