The contactin 4 gene locus at 3p26 is a candidate gene of SCA16

Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1236-1241

  Miura, S ^a,d   Shibata, H ^b   Furuya, H ^c   Ohyagi, Y ^a   Osoegawa, M ^a   Miyoshi, Y ^a   Matsunaga, H ^b   Shibata, A ^b   Matsumoto, N ^b   Iwaki, A ^b   Taniwaki, T ^a   Kikuchi, H ^a   Kira, J ^a   Fukumaki, Y ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Omuta National Hospital   (Japan)

^d KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACTIN; CONTACTIN 4; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN SCA16; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 3P; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTACTIN 4 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCA16 GENE; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION;

CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; PEDIGREE; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS;

EID: 33749829704     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000238510.84932.82     Document Type: Article

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