Parkinsonian phenotype in Machado-Joseph disease (MJD/SCA3): A two-case report

BMC Neurology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bettencourt, Conceição ^a,b,c   Santos, Cristina ^d   Coutinho, Paula ^b,e   Rizzu, Patrizia ^f   Vasconcelos, João ^g   Kay, Teresa ^h   Cymbron, Teresa ^a,b   Raposo, Mafalda ^a   Heutink, Peter ^f   Lima, Manuela ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c Fundacion Socio Sanitaria de Castilla La Mancha   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e Hospital So Sebastio   (Portugal)

^f VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g HOSPITAL DO DIVINO ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Portugal)

^h HOSPITAL DONA ESTEFÂNIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRADYKINESIA; CASE REPORT; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PHENOTYPE; TREMOR; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MALE; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; ATXN3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NERVE PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PARK7 PROTEIN, HUMAN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ADULT; ALLELES; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MACHADO-JOSEPH DISEASE; MALE; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 80054808790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-11-131     Document Type: Article

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