SNCA variants are associated with increased risk for multiple system atrophy

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 610-614

  Scholz, Sonja W ^a,b   Houlden, Henry ^b   Schulte, Claudia ^c   Sharma, Manu ^c   Li, Abi ^b   Berg, Daniela ^c   Melchers, Anna ^b   Paudel, Reema ^b   Gibbs, J Raphael ^a,b   Simon Sanchez, Javier ^a   Paisan Ruiz, Coro ^b   Bras, Jose ^a   Ding, Jinhui ^a   Chen, Honglei ^d   Traynor, Bryan J ^a   Arepalli, Sampath ^a   Zonozi, Ryan R ^a   Revesz, Tamas ^b   Holton, Janice ^b   Wood, Nick ^b   Lees, Andrew ^b   Oertel, Wolfgang ^e   Wüllner, Ullrich ^f   Goldwurm, Stefano ^g   Pellecchia, Maria Teresa ^h   Illig, Thomas ⁱ   Riess, Olaf ^j   Fernandez, Hubert H ^k   Rodriguez, Ramon L ^k   Okun, Michael S ^k   Poewe, Werner ^l   Wenning, Gregor K ^l   Hardy, John A ^b   Singleton, Andrew B ^a   Gasser, Thomas ^c   more..

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^e PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^g PARKINSON INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^l INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK;

EID: 67249139655     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.21685     Document Type: Article

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