Mutational screening of the Mitochondrial transcription factors B1 and B2 (TFB1M and TFB2M) in Parkinson's disease

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 468-470

  Sánchez Ferrero, Elena ^a   Coto, Eliecer ^a   Blázquez, Marta ^b   Ribacoba, René ^b   Guisasola, Luis M ^b   Salvador, Carlos ^b   Alvarez, Victoria ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

^b Oviedo and Alvarez ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Gene mutations; Mitochondrial transcription factors; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR B1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR B2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA REPLICATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SPAIN;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MUTATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 67549092006     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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