Co-segregation of huntington disease and hereditary spastic paraplegia in 4 generations

Neurologist

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 211-212

  Panas, Marios ^a   Karadima, Georgia ^a   Kalfakis, Nikolaos ^a   Vassilopoulos, Dimitris ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

co segregation; hereditary spastic paraplegia; Huntington disease; Silver syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILVER RUSSELL SYNDROME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GREECE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA, HEREDITARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960332244     PISSN: 10747931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NRL.0b013e3182173567     Document Type: Article

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