Recent advances in the genetics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia: Common pathways in neurodegenerative disease

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2006, Pages

  Talbot, Kevin ^a   Ansorge, Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED MULTIVESICULAR BODY PROTEIN 2; DYNACTIN; GENE PRODUCT; PROGANULIN; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALSOLIN CONTAINING PROTEIN;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANTERIOR HORN CELL; CHROMOSOME 9P; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FAMILY; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DEMENTIA; ENDOSOMAL SORTING COMPLEXES REQUIRED FOR TRANSPORT; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 33749002522     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddl202     Document Type: Review

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