Clinical course of the first Asian family with Parkinsonism related to SNCA triplication

Movement Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 2871-2875

  Sekine, Takeshi ^a   Kagaya, Hajime ^b   Funayama, Manabu ^a,c   Li, Yuanzhe ^c   Yoshino, Hiroyo ^c   Tomiyama, Hiroyuki ^a   Hattori, Nobutaka ^a,c  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Nakadori General Hospital   (Japan)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Duplication; Familial Parkinson's disease; SNCA; Triplication

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYDOPAMINE; LEVODOPA; PRAMIPEXOLE; SELEGILINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIA; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNCA GENE TRIPLICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; ALLELES; ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PEDIGREE;

EID: 78650221326     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23313     Document Type: Article

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