FXTAS is rare among Portuguese patients with movement disorders: FMR1 premutations may be associated with a wider spectrum of phenotypes

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 7, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Seixas, Ana I ^a   Vale, José ^b   Jorge, Paula ^c   Marques, Isabel ^c   Santos, Rosário ^c   Alonso, Isabel ^a   Fortuna, Ana M ^c   Pinto Basto, Jorge ^a,f   Coutinho, Paula ^d   Margolis, Russell L ^e   Sequeiros, Jorge ^a,f   Silveira, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL EGAS MONIZ   (Portugal)

^c UP   (Portugal)

^d Hospital So Sebastio   (Portugal)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FMR1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FAMILY HISTORY; FRAGILE X ASSOCIATED TREMOR ATAXIA SYNDROME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; ONSET AGE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TREMOR; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

AGED; ATAXIA; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PORTUGAL; TREMOR; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 79957829884     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17449081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-7-19     Document Type: Article

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