Replication of association of CHRNA4 rare variants with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: The Italian multicentre study

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 580-584

  Sabatelli, Mario ^a,b   Lattante, Serena ^a   Conte, Amelia ^a,b   Marangi, Giuseppe ^a   Luigetti, Marco ^a   Del Grande, Alessandra ^a   Chiò, Adriano ^c   Corbo, Massimo ^d   Giannini, Fabio ^e   Mandrioli, Jessica ^f   Mora, Gabriele ^g   Calvo, Andrea ^c   Restagno, Gabriella ^h   Lunetta, Christian ^d   Penco, Silvana ^d   Battistini, Stefania ^e   Zeppilli, Paolo ^a   Bizzarro, Alessandra ^a   Capoluongo, Ettore ^a   Neri, Giovanni ^a   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^a,i   Zollino, Marcella ^a   more..

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b ICOMM Association for ALS Research   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^g IRCCS   (Italy)

^h ASO OIRM S Anna   (Italy)

ⁱ IRCCS S Raffaele Pisana Roma e Casa di Cura S Raffaele   (Italy)

Author keywords

DNA; Genetics; Risk

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPORADIC AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; ODDS RATIO; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866086673     PISSN: 17482968     EISSN: 1471180X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17482968.2012.704926     Document Type: Article

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