PARK2 gene mutations in early onset Parkinson's disease patients of South India

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 523, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 145-147

  Padmaja, M Vishwanathan ^a   Jayaraman, Meenakshi ^a   Srinivasan, Avathvadi Venkatesan ^b,c   Srisailapathy, C R Srikumari ^a   Ramesh, Arabandi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

^b MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c Tamilnadu Dr MGR Medical University   (India)

Author keywords

Early onset; PARK2; South Indian PD patients

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; ETHNICITY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARK2 GENE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EID: 84864321883     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.06.062     Document Type: Article

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