ATXN-2 CAG repeat expansions are interrupted in ALS patients

Human Genetics

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 575-580

  Corrado, Lucia ^a   Mazzini, Letizia ^a   Oggioni, Gaia Donata ^a   Luciano, Bernadetta ^a   Godi, Michela ^a   Brusco, Alfredo ^b,c   Alfonso, Sandra D' ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c AOU San Giovanni Battista   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATXN 2 GENE; CAG REPEAT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; PEDIGREE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 80054874200     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: 14321203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-011-1000-2     Document Type: Article

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