Reevaluation of a large family defines a new locus for X-linked recessive pure spastic paraplegia (SPG34) on chromosome Xq25

Neurogenetics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 225-226

  Macedo Souza, Lúcia Inês ^a   Kok, Fernando ^a   Santos, Silvana ^a   Licinio, Luciana ^a   Lezirovitz, Karina ^a   Nascimento, Rafaella M P ^a   Bueno, Clarissa ^a   Martyn, Marcília ^a   Leão, Emília K E A ^a   Zatz, Mayana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BRAZIL; CHROMOSOME XQ; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; LETTER; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ONSET AGE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; TENDON REFLEX; X CHROMOSOME RECESSIVE DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENES, X-LINKED; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPLEGIA; PEDIGREE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 46149105418     PISSN: 13646745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10048-008-0130-8     Document Type: Letter

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