Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome: Intrafamilial variability and the size of the FMR1 premutation CGG repeat

Movement Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 866-870

  Capelli, Leonardo P ^a   Gonçalves, Márcia R R ^a   Kok, Fernando ^a   Leite, Cláudia C ^a   Nitrini, Ricardo ^a   Barbosa, Egberto R ^a   Vianna Morgante, Angela M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

FMR1 gene; Fragile X premutation; FXTAS; Tremor ataxia syndrome

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENEALOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TREMOR; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; CEREBELLUM; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-5; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTERLEUKIN-8; MALE; PEDIGREE; SIBLINGS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 34249095727     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21347     Document Type: Article

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