A pathogenetic classification of hereditary ataxias: Is the time ripe?

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 251, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 913-922

  De Michele, Giuseppe ^a   Coppola, Giovanni ^a   Cocozza, Sergio ^a   Filla, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Classification; Hereditary ataxias; Pathogenesis

Indexed keywords

POLYGLUTAMINE; PRION PROTEIN;

APRAXIA; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CHANNEL GATING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DNA REPAIR; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GENETIC LINKAGE; GERSTMANN STRAUSSLER SCHEINKER SYNDROME; HEREDITARY ATAXIA; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; MARINESCO SJOGREN SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TENDON REFLEX; TIME; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ATAXIA; DNA REPAIR; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 4344675214     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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