Association of plastin 3 expression with disease severity in spinal muscular atrophy only in postpubertal females

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1252-1256

  Stratigopoulos, George ^a   Lanzano, Patricia ^a   Deng, Liyong ^a   Guo, Jiancheng ^a   Kaufmann, Petra ^a   Darras, Basil ^b   Finkel, Richard ^c   Tawil, Rabi ^d   McDermott, Michael P ^e   Martens, William ^d   DeVivo, Darryl C ^a   Chung, Wendy K ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PLASTIN 3; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GROSS MOTOR FUNCTION MEASURE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIATRIC WARD; PREPUBERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; PEDIATRICS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77957939276     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2010.239     Document Type: Article

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