Mutational origin of Machado-Joseph disease in the Australian aboriginal communities of Groote Eylandt and Yirrkala

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 746-751

  Martins, Sandra ^a   Soong, Bing Wen ^b   Wong, Virginia C N ^c   Giunti, Paola ^d   Stevanin, Giovanni ^e   Ranum, Laura P W ^f   Sasaki, Hidenao ^g   Riess, Olaf ^h   Tsuji, Shoji ⁱ   Coutinho, Paula ^j   Amorim, António ^a   Sequeiros, Jorge ^a,k   Nicholson, Garth A ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^g HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^j Hospital So Sebastio   (Portugal)

^k UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^l UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAXIN 3; ATXN3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NERVE PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINE; CAG REPEAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NORTHERN TERRITORY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TAIWANESE; ABORIGINE; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY;

ASIA; AUSTRALIA; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MACHADO-JOSEPH DISEASE; MALE; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NORTHERN TERRITORY; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 84865583213     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2011.2504     Document Type: Article

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