Motor neuron disease: The C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion in FTD and ALS

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 249-250

  Bigio, Eileen H ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOME 9 OPEN READING FRAME 72 GENE; CHROMOSOME 9P; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DENTATE HILUS; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GRANULIN GENE; HEXANUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; HIPPOCAMPAL CA2 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; REVIEW; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; PROTEINS; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 84860883638     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2012.58     Document Type: Review

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