Carrier incidence for spinal muscular atrophy in southern Chinese

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 251, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1089-1093

  Chan, Vivian ^a   Yip, Ben ^a   Yam, Irene ^a   Au, Patrick ^a   Lin, Che Kit ^b   Wong, Virginia ^a   Chan, Tai Kwong ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^b Hong Kong Red Cross Blood T S   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Phenotype; QPCR; SMA carriers; SMN1; SMN2

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN;

ARTICLE; CHINESE; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY STUDY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MOTONEURON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMN1 GENE; SMN2 GENE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 4644336081     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-004-0487-z     Document Type: Article

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