Screen for expanded FMR1 alleles in patients with essential tremor

Movement Disorders

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 930-933

  Garcia Arocena, Dolores ^a   Louis, Elan D ^b,c   Tassone, Flora ^a   Gilliam, T Conrad ^c   Ottman, Ruth ^b,d,e   Jacquemont, Sébastien ^f   Hagerman, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c New York State Psychiatric Institute ^*  (United States)

^d Davis Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^e NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ataxia; Essential tremor; Fragile X; Neurodegeneration; Parkinson; Trinucleotide repeat

Indexed keywords

FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GAIT DISORDER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARKINSONISM; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 4444249398     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20043     Document Type: Article

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