Geriatric neurogenetics: Oxymoron or reality?

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 537-539

  Bird, Thomas D ^a,b   Lipe, Hillary P ^a   Steinbart, Ellen J ^b  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LIMB GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES, LIMB-GIRDLE; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS;

EID: 42249090571     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.65.4.537     Document Type: Review

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