Asian origin for the worldwide-spread mutational event in Machado-Joseph disease

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1502-1508

  Martins, Sandra ^a   Calafell, Francesc ^c   Gaspar, Claudia ^d   Wong, Virginia C N ^e   Silveira, Isabel ^b   Nicholson, Garth A ^f   Brunt, Ewout R ^g   Tranebjaerg, Lisbeth ^h,i   Stevanin, Giovanni ^j   Hsieh, Mingli ^k   Soong, Bing Wen ^l   Loureiro, Leal ^b   Dürr, Alexandra ^j   Tsuji, Shoji ^m   Watanabe, Mitsunori ^n,t   Jardim, Laura B ^o   Giunti, Paola ^p   Riess, Olaf ^q   Ranum P, Laura P W ^r   Brice, Alexis ^j   Rouleau, Guy A ^d   Coutinho, Paula ^s   Amorim, António ^a   Sequeiros, Jorge ^a,b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^h BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^j INSERM   (France)

^k TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^l TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

ⁿ GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^o HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^p UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^q UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^r UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^s Hospital So Sebastio   (Portugal)

^t HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ASIA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; FOUNDER EFFECT; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MACHADO-JOSEPH DISEASE; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION; PORTUGAL; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 35348877394     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.64.10.1502     Document Type: Article

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