Adult metachromatic leukodystrophy: A new mutation in the schizophrenia-like phenotype with early neurological signs

Psychiatric Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 85-91

  Kumperscak, Hojka G ^a   Plesnicar, Blanka K ^a   Zalar, Bojan ^b   Gradisnik, Peter ^a   Seruga, Tomaz ^a   Paschke, Eduard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b Psychiatric Clinic Ljubljana   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arylsulphatases; Metachromatic leukodystrophy; Mutation; Psycho cognitive type; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

CEREBROSIDE SULFATASE; ISOLEUCINE; THREONINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HEBEPHRENIA; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; LEUKOCYTE; METACHROMATIC LEUKODYSTROPHY; MISSENSE MUTATION; NEGATIVE SYNDROME; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CEREBROSIDE-SULFATASE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LEUKODYSTROPHY, METACHROMATIC; MALE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIBLINGS;

EID: 34247092345     PISSN: 09558829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YPG.0b013e3280298280     Document Type: Article

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