Late onset alexander's disease presenting as cerebellar ataxia associated with a novel mutation in the GFAP gene

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 258, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 938-940

  Schmidt, Stephan ^a,b   Wattjes, Mike P ^c   Gerding, Wanda M ^d   Van Der Knaap, Marjo ^c  

^a Neurologische Gemeinschaftspraxis Bonn   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALEXANDER DISEASE; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MISSENSE MUTATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALEXANDER DISEASE; BRAIN; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 79959962171     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-010-5849-0     Document Type: Letter

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